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Did you know that grasshoppers like popcorn? We sure didn’t. Now we’re wondering if they might also enjoy nibbling on some of our Buttered Popcorn Jelly Beans?

This grasshopper is munching on a single piece of popcorn, which for him seems like a pretty massive feast. The kernel of popcorn was dropped by a fan watching baseball at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. It’s a good thing this handsome little guy was nearby to make sure the snack didn’t go to waste.

[via Telegraph.co.uk]

man sorry for the #long post but boy is this creepy

They did this for the Navy with Battleship too. The military has always used Hollywood as easy recruitment fishing. You know how many hotshot pilots came out of the 80s when Top Gun came out (our ship used to play “Danger Zone” during flight ops…and it was 2012)? And the first Independence Day film probably saw an influx of Air Force recruits. This isn’t new, it’s just a lot less subtle.

And I find this to be especially interesting considering the DoD is trying their damndest to get people kicked out of the Armed Forces in order to cut back on spending. So why they’re recruiting as if they’re hurting for bodies is beyond me.

Relevant Links for reading up on the relationship between Hollywood/US Military:

Just in time for film lit!

we have come full circle

So, in the Victorian era, there was this hilarious concept of “the mustache spoon”.

Do you see how it works and what it’s supposed to do? Mustaches and facial hair were very important to the Victorians, so the mustache spoon has that little weird barrier in there that prevents food (soup, mostly, and other things you could basically sip from spoons) from getting on your mustache. Cuz sucking on your mustache to get stuff off of it is considered kind of bad form, even if it is efficient. 

The mustache spoon went obsolete once we hit about 1900. Facial hair quickly went out of style in the 20th century (that’s another post entirely), so there was no use for it. Plus, there was the fact that people looking back on the Victorian era thought it was completely ridiculous that such a froufrou, unnecessary thing as a special spoon to protect your mustache gained any sort of popularity to begin with.

Of course, anyone who’s been outside or on the Internet in the past few years knows that facial hair is making a comeback. Once confined to the Portland hipster stereotype, beards, mustaches, whiskers, and facial hair of all types have been on the rise among trendy young people of all types. 

Enter 2016, and enter … The Whisker Dam.

It probably looks pretty self-explanatory, but in case there’s any question: It’s to keep things from getting on your mustache. It’s to keep beer foam and liquids from getting in your mustache. 

Possibly out of worry that contemporary people will find it as totally silly as 20th century people found the mustache spoon, the website for it is very serious and manly. “The best dam invention for keeping your whiskers dry,” the website proclaims. And: “It’s like an umbrella, for your face.” And even: “Since the 1800′s gentlemen have been creating various contraptions to protect their magnificent Whiskers.” 

This is amazing. This is so funny to me. Mustache spoons are back. I can’t wait to find out what weirdo thing from centuries past we revive next. 

When you work at Lush and customer comes in and bites the soap because they think it’s cheese

this happens way more frequently than you think, i assure you

Well if you frickers stopped literally presenting soap as deli food maybe it wouldnt happen?

who goes into a bath store and thinks something covered in glitter is cheese

@fancyphobic

who goes to the store and just takes a bite from the cheese

@thankgawd @sparcjacobs

I’m going into the next cheese shop I see, and rubbing cheese all over myself like it’s soap.

so today i found out that i’m allowed to carry a knife with me to school as long as it’s smaller than 3 ½ inches but i still can’t show my shoulders and if thats not a perfect description of american schooling idk what is

COVER YOUR SHOULDERS WITH KNIVES

Shoulder blades.

I want to see them do an episode of The Price is Right with ultra rich people I want to see Mitt Romney try to tell me what he thinks the price of dish soap is

You know you're European when:

They have to defuse a WW2 bomb in your city and nobody is really concerned because that happens from time to time. 

WHAT #noteuropean 

dude there’s entire fields in the west part of Belgium that just has a small “Watch out, mine field” on it, and sometimes farmers don’t know and put cows on it and they get blown up. Shit happens. #WW2

Happens because of WW1 (WW2 too but there’s less stuff left) in northern France too. 

Almost walked on a non explosed pair of shells while looking for mushrooms. 

I was born in a small town in south Hungary… they didn’t just find one WW2 bomb somewhere around the town… they found 1200 bombs right outside the town in 2014.

Yes, around 1200 German SD-1 fragmentation bombs… only found in 2014!

I love those radio announcements. This part of the city, along with this highway and also, all trains going through, are going to be shut down on Saturday afternoon because bomb.

And all anyone bitches about is the detour they’re forced to take because if it didn’t blow up the past 71 years, they could have waited another week to defuse it, couldn’t they? Eugh.

there’s a flood? oh hello forgotten WWII ammunition in large quantities you go take a walk in the forest? oh hey WWII mine! kids play football in a field? good thing they didn’t kick that mine they found. someone actually looks through the old metal parts in a salvage yard? anti-aircraft mines! tbh nobody usually makes a great fuss because it very rarely actually hurts someone. but yeah until now I was always like ‘lol another one’ and never thought about it much XD

There’s a roadblock in the middle of the city? Oh no worries it’s just a bomb. A whole block gets evacuated? Oh no worries. Bomb.  #LifeinGermany

same in czech… we literally have closed forests where no one can go, because mines everywhere and lol, our neighbor was building water well on his garden last year and he is digging and digging and then he hits something solid, surprise it’s a wwii bomb…

Here’s one being detonated in Yorkshire in 2009 (from WW2)

Wtf are you guys ok

Yeah it’s fine, this shit is essentially gossip material and nothing more

i met him as soon as i set foot in germany and he is my first german friend 

i am so glad this is getting the attention it deserves 

This is so happy

Even cuter when you see him first discovering it (start at the bottom because it’s twitter, also thanks Brian for originally linking this to me haha): 

I love this entire thing!!