A simple instruction guide to how the world works, usually keyword driven

Dog or Lena Dunham? A Quiz

Do the following statements refer to (a) a dog or (b) Lena Dunham?

1. Makes a lot of noise when something catches her eye but not a whole lot of sense.

2. If she does not get enough attention, will publicly display her excrement until people notice.

3. If she lived in Germany in the 1930s, she would be excluded from cinema, theatre, concerts, exhibitions, beaches and holiday resorts.

4. She's not ashamed to do it doggy style in public.

5.  She bites the hands that feeds her. (sorry Judd Apatow)

How to piss off every New Yorker in 36 seconds

Step #1: Not be from New York.

Step #2: Be in New York.

Step #3: Do something that would take a New Yorker 35 seconds to do (for example, cross the street, order coffee, etc.)

How to fill Us Weekly magazine during a slow news week

Step #1: Look through your old file of paparazzi pics for the most boring photos you can't use for anything else, and then state the obvious in them. Here's an example...

Stars -- They're Just Like Us!


Helena Bonham Carter 2005

Every 60 seconds, Helena Bonham Carter's red blood cells do a complete circuit of her body.


Kim Kardashian 4

Kim Kardashian is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.


93.3 FLZ Jingle Ball Tampa Florida IMG 6806 (11490193603)

Ariana Grande is approximately 65% water.

How to identify great tits

#1. Great tits are passerine birds in the tit family Paridae.
#2. Great tits are larger than other tits, measuring 12.5–14.0 cm (4.9–5.5 in) in length.
#3. Great tits are commonly spotted in urban parks and gardens.
#4. Japanese tits used to be considered great tits, but after studies by Russian scientists, Japanese tits are now considered a separate subspecies.
#5. To help you identify great tits, here is a photo of a pair of great tits. And you can visit Wikipedia to learn more about great tits.

GreatTit002
By Shirley Clarke (Fordingbridge Camera Club) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons


How to rock

Step #1: Determine society's status quo(s).
Step #2: Rebel against said status quo(s).*

*Please note, if someone has already rebelled against the status quo, you must rebel against them rebelling against the status quo. This is known as being a counterrevolutionary, alternative, or normcore, depending on the exact thing you are trying to rock.

How to make the perfect pie crust

Step #1: Become a deity or the Pope. Well done! Now everything you do is perfect.

Step #2: Mix flour, sugar, and butter. Bake.

Smartphone definition

Smartphone ˈsmärtˌfōn/ noun

A computer that contains access to more human knowledge than in the entire ancient Library of Alexandria yet can fit in the palm of a human's hand. People use these devices mainly to play Candy Crush Saga, take photos of themselves, and make the minutiae of daily life look more interesting to other people on social networks.

12 Things People Do

See also: Things 12 People Do (disambiguation)


#1. Write list-based blog posts.

#2. Use their autonomic nervous system to control heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, salivation, perspiration, pupillary dilation, breathing, and swallowing. People so do that all the time.

#3. Dance like no one is watching only when no one is actually watching. Otherwise, dance really self consciously (except if alcohol or club drugs have been ingested).

#4. Make decisions that benefit them in the short term at the expense of long-term happiness.

#5. Photosynthesize (Editor's Update: Will be moved to future blog post "12 Things Plants Do." Thanks for catching this error, IBrakeForPlants82.)

#6. Walk upright. Again, except when alcohol is involved.


#7. Dig up millenia worth of carbon. Burn it. And not notice any negative effects. "This planet was like this when we got here. Really. We didn't break it."

#8. Kill for sport. People, they're the worst.

#9. Use opposable thumbs to hitchhike.

#10. Care for their young. Except this jerk.

#11. Manipulate objects with a fairly fine precision. And manipulate people into buying junk they don't need with TV commercials.

#12. Exercise morality. Treat other people how they seek to be treated.

Things 12 people do

#1. Inherit $1.8 billion from Matthew and Martin Bucksbaum, as members of one of America's Richest Families.

#2. Walk on the moon.

#3. Form a minyan, with a comfortable buffer.

#4. Live in Weeki Wachee, Florida.

#5. Field a Canadian football team.

#6. Destroy a villa filled with Nazi officers.

10 famous newspaper headlines if they were written by Upworthy

Before You Say This Ship Is Unsinkable, Listen To The First Dot And The Second Dash From This Morse Code Telegraph Operator


Original: "Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg," The New York Times



9 Out Of 10 Americans Will Be Eating At Soup Kitchens Next Year Because Of This Amazing Financial Development

Original: "Greatest Crash In Wall Street History," Daily Mail


Before You Say You're An Isolationist, Read This One Article About What Japan Just Did


Original: "War! Oahu Bombed By Japanese Planes," Honolulu Star-Bulletin


Bully Kills Millions Of Innocent People, Allies Destroy Him


Original: "Hitler Dead," The News Chronicle



Germany Decided To Pick A Fight With The Rest Of The World. It Didn't Go Well.


Original: "The War In Europe Is Ended! Surrender Is Unconditional," The New York Times


Before You Say You're Not Interested In Science, Watch These World War II Pilots Hop Around In Low Gravity


Original: "Men Walk On Moon," The New York Times


Move Over Nixon -- You're Obsolete


Original: "Nixon Resigns. He Urges A Time Of 'Healing': Ford Will Take Office Today," The New York Times


If This News Makes You Uncomfortable, Then You Make Me Uncomfortable

 Original: "Mandela Goes Free Today," City Press


Defense Contractors Were Making Tons Of Money. And Then This Separation Between This World Superpower And This World Superpower Did Something Truly Super That Will Make You Totally Rethink How You Look At Global Geopolitics


Original: "Berlin Wall Tumbles," London Herald


You Will Let Your Jaw Hit The Floor When You See Who We Just Elected.


Original: "Obama. Racial Barrier Falls In Decisive Victory," The New York Times

Titanic - New York Times Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg”

How to run a profitable business

Step #1: Hire lots of corporate lobbyists. Give more than $18.8 million to federal candidates, committees and parties.

Step #2: Be greedy and shady. Bring the world to the brink of financial collapse. But don't worry because...

Step #3: Remember Step #1? Now's the time to call in a favor or two or $9 trillion to clean up the mess you created. Talk about return on investment.

Step #4: Dodge serious regulatory reform (thanks again to Step #1).

Step #5: Generate $76 billion in profits.

How to name a brand extension

Let's say you sell discount chairs, and your brand is called Sit For Less.

Well, then you want to have a brand extension and sell discount toilets. You could call it Shit For Less.

How to grow a green lawn

Step #1: Dump poisons -- like fertilizers and pesticides -- on your lawn that may pollute drinking water, shrink your testicles, and give you cancer.

Step #2: Pour gas in your lawn mower -- likely bought from dictatorships that supports terrorists -- and mow your lawn with an engine that is more polluting than driving a car 100 miles because it has no catalytic converter and may give you lung cancer. As a bonus, tick off your neighbors with a loud lawn mower that drowns out the bucolic suburban noises of birds chirping and simple, mere silence.

Step #3: Water your lawn with valuable, fresh, clean drinking water that will make up 50% of your water bill, deplete freshwater aquifers, and cause your municipality to have to invest in a desalination plant that will further spike your water bill while sucking up huge amounts of energy...causing greenhouse gas pollution that will further worsen global climate change that will lead to droughts causing you to spend even more money watering your green lawn.

Step #4: Congratulations! You now have a green lawn! A super-polluting, very expensive crop that you can't even eat that's sole purpose is to one-up your neighbors.

How to unironically name a skyscraper

The most prominent building in San Francisco is called the Transamerica Pyramid.

Trans...america. Trans. In San Francisco. Trans.

And it's in the shape of a triangle.

You just can't make this stuff up.


How to understand the politics of the government shutdown

You can understand the politics of the government shutdown through analogy:

Example #1: Congress is like a family. And like most families, most of the people are normal and kind. However, family activities always revolve around the most dysfunctional family member who monopolizes everything. So House Republicans are like Crazy Uncle Ned. While everyone else is talking an laughing at Thanksgiving, he smashes the gravy boat against the wall and walks out.

Example #2: House Republicans are like the Mafia, experts at extortion. "You've got a nice country here. It'd be a shame if anything were to...happen to it."

Example #3: House Republicans are like children. "If we don't play my game exactly the way I want to play, I'm going to take my ball and go home and nobody gets to play. Plus, I'm going to shut down the entire Pop Warner league while I'm at it."

Example #4: House Republicans are like your crazy ex-girlfriend. "You're told me 42 times you won't marry me. Well, I'm going to ask you a 43rd time, and if you say no, I'm cutting off the power to your house."

Example #5: House Republicans are a little awkward in their understanding of what the word negotiate means. "We want to smash you in the face with a metal pole and burn down your house. OK, look, we'll meet you halfway. How about we don't smash you in the face with a metal pole, but just burn down your house. What? You won't discuss that? WHY WON'T YOU NEGOTIATE! YOU'RE SUCH AN EXTREMIST!"

Example #6: House Republicans are Obamaphobes. Afraid of anything with the word Obama on it, even Bob Dole's health care plan. For this reason, perhaps we should start calling coal, ObamaCoal, and then maybe House Republicans will want to shut down all coal-fired power plants as well, and we'll have less childhood asthma and mercury pollution.

How to walk and chew gum

Step #1: Sit....

Step #2: Chew, chew, chew.

Step #3: Hold jaw steady.

Step #4: Walk some more.

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