Jeremy Taylor
Nice Guys Get Paid Less, Do Worse in Salary Negotiations
If you’re a man with a pleasant personality, you’re probably not going to get paid as a much as a man with a less agreeable personality.
Researchers from University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business were able to determine, using information gleamed from three large scale longitudinal studies, that men who who have agreeable personality types — meaning they test high for warmth, kindness
Driver’s Fred Flintstone Braking Technique Results in Multiple Crashes [VIDEO]
A Georgia man was aware that his pickup truck had no functional brakes when he took it for a drive Wednesday afternoon. But the 24-year-old was under the mistaken — and likely Saturday morning cartoon-influenced — impression he could just stop the vehicle by sticking his foot out the door and dragging it across the pavement, Fred Flinstone-style.
Ball Bounces Off Minor Leaguer’s Head to Start Amazing Triple Play [VIDEO]
This triple play, turned by minor league team the Nashville Sounds, is about the strangest instant inning-ender we’ve ever seen.
Arizona Mom Strives to Be Fattest Woman Ever [VIDEO]
World’s fattest mom Susanne Eman weighs 728 pounds, and the 32-year-old mother of two is consuming over 20,000 calories a day in hopes of eventually setting the all-time record for heaviest woman, which is 1,600 pounds.
Audio of Gerard Depardieu’s Airplane Urination Incident Uncovered [VIDEO]
Earlier this week, French actor Gerald Depardieu caused a stir (and gave Anderson Cooper the giggles) when he sloppily peed into a bottle on a Paris-to-Dublin flight.
Sadly, there’s not video or photos of the incident, but the folks at Funny or Die have created a fake black box recording of Depardieu’s faux pas.
Pantie-Headed Bandit Strikes in Dallas [VIDEO]
In what appears to be a combination of crime and fetish fantasy, a man in Dallas, Texas robbed an Exxon TigerMart while wearing a floral dress, white boots and with a pair of panties obscuring his face.
Driver Miraculously Rescued as Sanitation Truck Crashes Through Third Story of Building [VIDEO]
A Department of Sanitation truck somehow managed to smash halfway through the wall of a third story parking garage in Queens, New York Wednesday morning, leaving both the vehicle and the driver dangling perilously in the air.
Good Looking People Are More Selfish — Study
Attractive people are less likely to cooperate with others, and more likely to focus on their own interest, according to a new study
Spanish researchers had volunteers participate in “Prisoner’s Dilemma“-type games and found that those with the most symmetrical facial features generally took the selfish option, whereas less symmetrically-faced folks tended to cooperate for the greater good.
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50 Trippiest Drug Hallucinations in Movies [VIDEO]
From ‘Trainspotting’ to ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ to ‘Hot Tub Time Machine,’ filmmakers have tried all sorts of different ways to portray drug hallucinations in the movies.
This montage, put together by supercut-maker extraordinaire Mewlists, features 50 of the most famous drug trips ever put on film. See how many you can recognize — and try not to get a contact high.
Largest Group Shower Record Broken By Bikini Models [VIDEO]
The folks at Bournemout Beach in England got quite an eyeful this weekend when an event organized by body spray brand Lynx set the Guinness World Record for the largest group shower.
Darth Vader Faces Off With Peter Pan at the Disneyland Parade [VIDEO]
Last week, ‘Star Wars’ villain Darth Vader grabbed a couple of stormtroopers and took in the parade at Disneyland.
Budweiser Can Gets First Makeover in a Decade
Anheuser-Busch will be rolling out a redesigned can for its iconic Budweiser brand this summer. Bud’s first updated look in ten years will feature more red then before, and will give more space to Budweiser’s bow-tie shaped logo.