Cracked Archive - Weird World

5 Ways You're Screwing Up Your Pet (Explained by a Vet)

I've worked as a veterinary tech for seven years, and I've seen people make all kinds of stupid decisions with regard to their furry friends.

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By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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August 11, 2014

6 Awesome Things I'm Not Cool Enough To Own

I couldn't pull these off without feeling self-conscious.

By Gladstone
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August 10, 2014

6 Types of Gender Inequality That We Need to Just Accept

The fact is there are certain areas of life in which men will inevitably be superior to women, and other areas where women are leaps and bounds ahead of men.

By Felix Clay
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August 09, 2014

So You're Trapped In a Labyrinth

Is the labyrinth a metaphor? Are you trapped in something that's just really confusing? A long-term cellphone plan? A bureaucratic nightmare? The prison of your own diseased mind?

By Chris Bucholz
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August 09, 2014

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.

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By J.F. Sargent
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August 08, 2014

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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.