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We always feel a little girlie wearing bandages, you know? It’s like a really childish sort of symbolic castration, which in a way is even more debilitating: not only are we injured and unable to conceal it, but we have to treat the wound with a really small and precious strip of adhesive (remember Nelly?).
Fortunately, [...]

As you presumably heard, a couple weeks ago Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien fell during a race with Teri Hatcher, hit his head and suffered a mild concussion. The fall was played during a subsequent broadcast, becoming the latest but by no means the biggest celebrity head-bump. Super Punch provides some context with their listicle [...]

It’s Monday morning and we presumably all feel a little weary of the week that’s beginning. (Oh, to live in Canada and have the day off for Thanksgiving!) But fear not, for it could always be worse. At least you aren’t (we sincerely hope) one of the poor people in pain featured in Manofest’s epic [...]

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 [...]

You presumably heard about the little girl who was saved from certain car-crushing death by a metal pole in a shopping mall parking lot, right? Well, she’s just the latest in a series of death-defying folks saved by some miraculous stroke of luck on camera. Epic Carnival has assembled the luckiest listicle ever, featuring The [...]

Though we recently regaled you with some of the most memorable newscaster bloopers, it seems unfair to single out media professionals’ pitfalls without highlighting some of the stresses they endure as well. For instance, Epic Carnival’s listicle of the 20 Strangest Moments in Newscasting History features some awesomely unlikely accidents, like uncontrollable reptiles.

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 [...]

You know what the beginning of Fall means (especially on college campuses): football! Seriously, though, the college football that will get us through the next few months is just getting started, and we’re a little overwhelmed with all the statistics and studies that we’re already behind on. Complex contributes another slightly overwhelming set of stats [...]

Obviously, talk shows are generally a totally depthless and unexciting genre of television that pretty much never registers a blip on the old excitement-meter – all the planned and approved questions, teleprompted jokes, applause signs and elaborately choreographed “surprise” appearances. Every so often, though, a meticulously planned late evening’s programing can still go awry, as [...]

Last month Lil’ Wayne protege and rare Canadian cross-over rapper Drake took a pretty serious fall during a concert, sparking a great deal of concern over his physical well-being and his bummed knee. He subsequently canceled all but his hometown (Toronto) appearance on the tour, and is resting up. Complex seized upon the highly-publicized and [...]