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The celebration FAIL is possibly the most embarrassing if it’s happening to you, and often the most satisfying if you’re a spectator, because what’s better than watching obnoxious victors get some swift comeupance? Epic Carnival deals out some bubble-bursting pain with their listicle of the 12 Best Celebration Fails, and we’ve got a couple more [...]

Though we often feel like we don’t use them enough, we really enjoy animated gifs and appreciate their artistry a great deal. We may start to do it a lot more now that Urlesque has curated a top-notch listicle of 8 Animated Gif Blogs, which is a fairly invaluable resource given how many crappy animated [...]

Don’t let the relatively small regional audiences and occasionally mundane stories get you fooled, local news is a high-pressure media arena, and in many ways the lack of major funding forces reporters to go beyond their normal comfort zones more often. Two recent listicles explored the various failures of these overworked and underpaid professionals, mental_floss [...]

We haven’t thought about pole-vaulting in ages, not since we accidentally flipped on the track and field competition on TV during a long-ago summer Olympics, or maybe it was during junior high school gymnastics… At any rate, pole vaulting is a rather ridiculous-looking sport that we’ve never considered practicing, and are less likely to consider [...]

As you may have heard, recently, Fox announced its intentions to develop a television program based on the popular blog Texts from Last Night, which will be the most fractured and disjointed TV show ever, but might work in a trashy-beautiful-basket-cases-being-naughty kind of way. At any rate, pending that project, the good people at Complex [...]

As kids we were total trampoline addicts – we were on that thing all the time, and though we never came away with any serious injuries or even substantial some of our friends took some mighty impressive tumbles. We never ever broke a trampoline, although a rather heavy-set friend of ours definitely bent his out [...]

Not to brag or anything, but at the end of our first driving test we pretty much had it in the bag, but as we pulled up to the testing center the instructor asked us to back into the only remaining spot in the parking lot, which was impossibly narrow. We totally pulled it off, [...]

Let’s face it, at some point we all wanted to be ninjas (in some cases ninja turtles, ninja surfers, or even three ninjas). And we’ve probably all had some embarrassing moments of aspiring ninja combat gone horribly wrong. For instance, we remember jumping just a little too high in a room with dangerously low ceiling [...]

Watching the videos in Hail Mary Jane’s listicle of 10 Epic Pogo Stick Fails, we’re starting to realize that there’s a kind of fated doom to the pogo stick rider. Like, what did you expect would happen? Watch enough of them and getting on a pogo stick starts to look like a daredevil proposition, accepted [...]

Today is Magic Day, a day when all the world’s magicians and illusionists go above and beyond their usual repertoire of mind-boggling performances to create the most daring, spectacular and incomprehensible illusions. Of course, many of them fail miserably. Magic, after all, is much harder than pulling a rabbit out of a hat (which is [...]