Cracked Archive - Weird World
4 Aspects of Hostage Situations Movies Didn't Prepare Me For
Thanks to pop culture, we feel we have a pretty firm grip on hostage negotiation procedure. But we learned that the movies had wildly misinformed us about the reality of hostage negotiation.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- August 08, 2014
27 Dumb Things Men Suspect About Women
The thing about men getting advice on women is that it's mostly them just asking other men. And men are pretty dumb.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- August 08, 2014
4 Comic Crossovers That Stuck It to the Man
Here are four times writers from rival franchises secretly (and slightly illegally) made their comics intersect and didn't tell anyone.
- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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- August 07, 2014
4 Terrible Messages That Girl-Centered Ads Are Sending
As a grown woman and a mom of middle school daughters, I'm convinced that the new wave of viral ads are just as pandering and insulting as the things they're trying to prevent.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- August 07, 2014
4 Modern Countries With Surprisingly Backward Technology
A lot of places that we think of as 'modern' are still trailing stray bits of old-school technology, like a Van Halen cassette whose magnetic tape has gotten caught in the back wheel of a flying car.
- By C. Coville
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- August 06, 2014
6 Offensive Messages Hidden in Huge Marketing Campaigns
Nobody involved in these ads likely had anything but the best of intentions, which is why it's all the funnier.
- By A.C. Grimes
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- August 06, 2014
5 Bizarre Consequences of Being Given Somebody Else's Organ
At the age of 30, I underwent surgery to replace my kidneys with one that my mom had donated. And if that sounds like a pretty straightforward operation, well ...
- By Chris Radomile, Angela Frank
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- August 05, 2014
6 Ridiculous Jobs They Have in Other Countries
These jobs are like nothing you'll see in the United States, or any other country where 'government regulations' and 'enforced labor laws' are things.
- By Robert Evans
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- August 04, 2014
5 Facts About Meth the Anti-Drug Ads Won't Show You
Meth is terrifying. But it might not suck in the exact shape and form that has been described to you by pop culture.
- By J.F. Sargent, Oscar Kindling
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- August 04, 2014
The 5 Most Annoying Flaws of Modern Internet Search Engines
The search engine is glorious. Except when it's not.
- By Gladstone
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- August 02, 2014
5 Terrifying Things Only Truckers Know About the Highway
Everyone on the highway is boning.
- By J.F. Sargent, Donec Quis, Mallory Spline
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- August 02, 2014
5 Birds That Suck: A Drunk Column
I packed a camera, a notebook, a birding guide from the library (that I was unquestionably the first person to ever open), and a CamelBak full of booze.
- By Soren Bowie
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- July 31, 2014
6 Dazzling Sights in Nature (Caused by Human Stupidity)
As bad as it is that humanity is destroying the planet, at least we can console ourselves with the fact that we manage to create some trippy imagery in the process.
- By Kel Zhang
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- July 31, 2014
5 Childhood-Ruining Appearances from Famous Characters
Nobody's perfect. This includes your favorite childhood characters, because for every pop culture icon, there's at least one obscure episode where they can be seen doing things you'd never expect.
- By JM McNab
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- July 29, 2014
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