Archive for July 14th, 2009

First-Person Shooter Disease

A funny video showing how one family copes living with a man with “first-person shooter disease.” For all you gamers out there…this is what too much xbox can do to you.

World’s Fastest Everything

Take a look at this video which collaborates the fastest times in many different sports and activities including cup stacking, shooting, sprinting, clapping, stamping, rubik’s cube solving and more.

The cup stacker is amazing, so is the stamper. The fastest undresser made me laugh though. I mean, how do you realize you have that talent in the first place?

Cats Manipulate Humans By Purring

Your cat is hungry and begins purring loudly to attract your attention so that you will feed it. This is the standard way cats communicate with their owners isn’t it? Well, no. Cats are far more clever than that.

Researchers at the University of Sussex, UK, have found that unlike an ordinary purr, cats use a ’soliciting’ purr to demand food that is able to overpower their owner, but at the same time appeal to their nurturing instincts.

The sound incorporates a ‘cry’, with a similar frequency to that of a baby’s.

“The team recorded the purrs of 10 different cats when they were soliciting food, and when they were purring in a different context. Fifty people who were asked to rate the purrs on how pleasant and urgent they sounded consistently rated the “solicitation purrs” as more urgent and less pleasant. Cat owners were especially good at distinguishing between the two kinds of purring.”

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Multicolored Dogs?! What Next?

A growing trend seems to be multicolored dogs. No, this is not a genetic condition, but rather the decision of their overpowering owners.

Dog owners with nothing better to do, are becoming obsessed with dying the fur of their four legged pets. This trend began in China and spread to the West, but has it gone too far now?

Dogs will be taken to grooming parlors, not just for a trim and shampoo, but now for a full-body painting.

Although owners may be doing this with good intent, surely it is at the expense of the dog’s dignity. Perhaps owners should first dye their own hair multicolored and then let the dog decide if they theirs done.

Do you believe that fur dying is a harmless act which people do as a treat for their pets or are dog owners just trying to make their dog stand out from the crowd to compensate for the lack of attention they receive themselves?

Make your own mind up on this one.

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