Blog Page 201

How Mad Men Nearly Killed The Walking Dead

0

Like the shambolic, rotted corpses featured in the show, The Walking Dead will never fucking die. Though it’s not like AMC haven’t tried to kill the show, like that time they gave half its budget to Mad Men forcing them to set nearly the entire season on a farm. 

The Japanese Guy Who Decided to Chill After Being Shot in the Face

0

Usually there are two ends to stories about people who get shot in the face, either they die or they do something unthinkably awesome. This is a story about the latter. 

That Time The Simpons Didn’t Know a Super Offensive Word Was Offensive

0

During the 25 or so years it has been on the air the Simpsons has addressed nearly every social issue there including most pertinently to this article, homosexuality. While the episode has been lauded for its representation of gay people, early in production the writers inexplicably included one of the worst homosexual slurs there is and didn’t realise its offence until an actual gay man told them to maybe cut that shit out. 

The Lady Who Pulled a Gun on Her Lawyer in Court

0

Although we hope nobody reading this will ever need this advice, if you ever find yourself in court and want to prove to everyone present that you’re not a crazy, unhinged asshole, it’s generally advised that you refrain from pulling a gun on the lawyer questioning you. Unless you want the lawyer go all Harvey Dent on your ass. Apparently though this wasn’t a risk back in the late 19th century because a lady called Sarah Althea Hill became infamous with the press for doing stuff like that all the time during an embittered, decade long legal battle. 

That Time a Bunch of Templars Were Arrested, Because Of Their Beards

0

The Templars were a renowned, almost mythical order of knights and badasses famed across the ancient world for their ability to shatter ribcages with punishing, armor-clad right hooks and split wigs with lightning fast sword strikes. Or they were until the 14th century when nearly all of them were tracked down and killed, because they had beards.