Cracked Archive - Weird World

It's concerning that the Internet can turn one dumb joke into a life-ruining experience, but what's even more alarming is that the way the Internet works is designed to encourage it.

• By Mark Hill
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• March 11, 2015

While it makes sense to get worried when scientists start breeding strains of genetically modified superintelligent flying spiders, there have been panics about even the most mundane, common-sense advancements.

• By Pat Carnell
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• March 11, 2015

If I had fallen on my back or head, I would have died instantly. If I had fallen while front-flipping and playing air guitar, I would have died awesomely.

• By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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• March 11, 2015

It's easy to forget that pets are incredibly durable creatures that can bounce back from situations that Wile E. Coyote would find hard to survive.

• By Pauli Poisuo
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• March 10, 2015

What sins of the past will he be forced to digest now?

• By Evan V. Symon
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• March 10, 2015

Here are some obvious lies the news media fell for harder than your anti-vaccine and global warming-denying friends on Facebook.

• By Douglas A. McDonnell
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• March 09, 2015

We talked to one of these CI's, who'll remain anonymous for obvious reasons. This is what we learned.

• By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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• March 09, 2015

We live and we learn, but sometimes someone needs to splurge for a tripod and shoot a short educational film that we can learn from as we reconsider that whole 'living' part.

• By Luis Prada
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• March 08, 2015

The entire human race sucks at democracy. And we can't even help it.

• By Michael Hossey
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• March 08, 2015

Every now and again, you encounter individuals who display such transcendent jerkitude that you almost have to admire their commitment to being terrible. Almost.

• By E. Reid Ross
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• March 08, 2015

We spoke to a source who worked direct care in a Florida maximum security forensic mental hospital for almost a decade, and learned that maybe we should have an alternate criminal defense planned.

• By Mark Hill, Anonymous
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• March 08, 2015

Jobs that sound too good to be true often ARE. Especially for folks with no education or training.

• By Kathy Benjamin
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• March 07, 2015

Everyone involved in the following initiatives meant well, but well-meaning bad ideas are still bad ideas.

• By Lillian Marx
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• March 06, 2015

Super fans have exalted these songs to a level of philosophical or literary heaviness that scrutiny does not sustain.

• By Gladstone
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• March 05, 2015

Every once in a while, a massive organization you think you know turns out to just be using that notion to hide their bizarre and unexpected past.

• By K. R. Kelleher
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• March 04, 2015