Mirror and Cache index - Offbeat: People
700 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 21:52:01 by insaincain02 | 64 comments
"I guess I imagined it being like in the movies: drinking champagne, hot-tubbing with honeys, and
cruising in customized Escalades while watching the cash roll in. But here I am, freezing my ass
off. I've got to say, these drug-dealing scumbags really earn their pay."
759 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 11:24:44 by SirPopper | 96 comments
Comcast Driver To Senior Citizen: "Get The F!@# Down From Your Car So I Can Kick Your Ass"
Northfaceninja watched in horror as a Comcast employee repeatedly smashed his Comcast van into a car
driven by a senior citizen before barking: "Get the fuck down from your car so I can kick your ass."
The angry employee quickly abandoned his ass-kicking pla
2263 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 02:13:29 by MookiBlaylock | 171 comments
282 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 05:02:09 by life38 | 14 comments
USA Today addresses the competing messages that lead to confusion.
541 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 01:45:26 by lucy22 | 105 comments
Fans of heavy metal music are gentle, creative people who are at ease with themselves, which makes
them very similar to fans of classical music.
918 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 12:55:05 by Angel1379 | 71 comments
Thank god for people who feel a deep urge to explain the obvious.
482 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 17:39:58 by ritubpant | 139 comments
Researchers have uncovered evidence that teachers are routinely under-estimating the abilities of
some black pupils, suggesting that assumptions about behavioural problems are overshadowing their
academic talents.
2942 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 15:05:25 by insaincain02 | 471 comments
If you’ve visited digg.com at any point over the past two weeks, you’ve probably seen a ton of
articles about Sarah Palin. Various scandals she may be involved in. Various scandals she someday
will be involved in.
572 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 05:14:35 by LewP | 176 comments
If the separation anxiety isn't enough, teens headed to university have to face a scary fact:
They've got no choice in a first-year college roommate. But that doesn't have to spell dorm doom,
according to a study from University of Michigan researchers.
566 votes | submitted 2008-09-04 17:07:39 by atulperx | 54 comments
In this story you can find be idea like What would you do if you impaled yourself with a large,
sharp, piece of wood? If your tooth fell out? If you fell from a high ladder? If your friend had a
severe allergic reaction?
1380 votes | submitted 2008-09-04 18:05:11 by vick3ii | 130 comments
John Renehan spotted his father, John Delaney, by chance on a programme about missing people.
Unknown to his family, Mr Delaney had spent the intervening years living in a care home just a few
miles away from them, using a new name because he could not remember his own...
1957 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 01:38:10 by suxmonkey | 273 comments
You're doing it wrong!
379 votes | submitted 2008-09-04 08:28:28 by broalexinfo | 76 comments
"You have such full lips, just like my mom." That pickup line probably won't get a guy many
dates--but it's likely to be true. A new study of facial features adds to mounting evidence that a
man tends to choose a girlfriend who resembles his mother, and a woman picks a boyfriend who looks
like her father.
439 votes | submitted 2008-09-03 18:01:47 by numberneal | 29 comments
Who are the seventy-five most influential people of the 21st century? Who made our register of the
great and angry and inspired and obsessed -- famous, notorious, powerful, and not -- who will have
something to say about the rest of our lives? This here, this is just a little hint.
664 votes | submitted 2008-09-03 21:03:50 by sungoddess808 | 129 comments
A pair of Modesto police officers who stopped to help a motorist Tuesday morning ended up helping
the man's wife give birth to a baby boy, who was later named, Jesus. After the mother and baby were
transported to the hospital, the two officers thought the logical next step would be to buy Jesus
some gifts. =)
2907 votes | submitted 2008-09-03 14:44:08 by KevinFederline | 489 comments
Under every video on YouTube, story on Digg or even right here on Cracked, there is a mini-culture
that forms down in the comment section. The hit-and-run nature of the comments means it's fertile
ground for some really annoying personalities to thrive. Here are the eight most obnoxious (and
common) personality types.
706 votes | submitted 2008-09-02 16:03:06 by irfanmp | 61 comments
I was tempted to lead off with Porky Pig, but after Joe Biden’s public confession last week during
the Democratic National Convention, it seemed timelier to kick off the list with him.