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There are some YouTube edits that are so spectacular they pretty much speak for themselves.

The video above is a glorious four-minute supercut of Tom Hardy swearing in the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders, courtesy of YouTuber Furegious.

If you’ve never seen Peaky Blinders, it’s a nice little introduction — if you have, it’s a brilliant reminder of Alfie Solomons at his absolute finest. Read more…

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No, you’re not that important or busy. Put your smartphone away and pay more attention to the world around you.

Better yet, leave your smartphone over there, where you can’t get to it for a few hours. 

Now breathe deep and try not to panic. The world (probably) isn’t going to end while you’re deprived of your mobile pacifier. That’s what a lot of us are thinking, but we’re too heads down in our smartphones to tell each other that. 

The Handmaid’s Tale, The Hunger Games, the Divergent series, somehow none of these dystopian sci-fi parables have prepared us for a techno-centric world in which the shuffling, oblivious zombies are us. In 2016, a report in the Wall Street Journal cited stats from the Consumer Product Safety Commission indicating that emergency room visits by distracted pedestrians using mobile phones were up 124 percent from 2014. The same report claimed that such accidents have increased 10-fold from 2006. Let there be no doubt, although we’re increasingly aware of our distracted driving problems, we also have a serious distracted walking problem.  Read more…

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There are some pictures that are simply crying out to be Photoshopped.

As the good people of Reddit demonstrated on Tuesday, the below image of a dog attempting to catch a call definitely falls into this category.

Here’s the original, in all its glory.

Sort of unnerving but also kind of hilarious, right?

Well, it got even better once the Photoshopping started.

First, there were some musical numbers.

Some people clearly thought the dog looked horrified.

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Please proofread your advertisements for potentially awkward innuendos.

A redditor called MangyRunt snapped a picture of a London Metropolitan University advertisement on a London bus stop and shared it in the r/London subreddit.

The advertisement read, “Demi — London Met graduate. Loves his mum, fried chicken, and his Biomedical Science degree. Do something you love this September.”

The redditor circled “Loves his mum” in red to point out the awkward wording that makes this advert feel just plain wrong. Read more…

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It’s the final countdown to the UK’s snap General Election. So, naturally, politicians are out in force, attempting to convince the general public to vote for them.

Prime Minister Theresa May appeared on BBC’s The One Show on Tuesday evening and claimed that her shoes inspired someone to get into politics. And, suffice it to say, viewers were not convinced. 

May said that around four or five years ago, she was talking to a young woman in the lift in the House of Commons

“I said ‘ooh nice pair of shoes’ and she said ‘ooh I like your shoes,’ and then she looked at me and said ‘your shoes got me involved in politics,'”said May.  Read more…

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For every big news announcement there are at least 10 fake news popping up — it’s rule. 

In this case, after President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, a tweet from his alleged Twitter account said: “Disappointed to leave the FBI, a career I’ve loved for 27 years. During this difficult time I just want all of America to know that the pee tape is real.”

Many people reacted: 

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It’s one of the basic rules of the internet — don’t lie because you will inevitably be called out, especially if you’re a public figure.

Bow Wow seemed to have forgotten his internet handbook when he posted this picture of luxury cars and a private jet to his social media feeds. 

The image would suggest that the rapper was traveling by private jet for his Growing Up Hip Hop press tour, which makes this Twitter user’s tweet so embarrassing. Read more…

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With Microsoft seemingly uninterested in releasing a new 2-in-1 Surface Pro, other PC makers like HP are stepping in to fill the void.

HP’s Elite x2 1012 G2 (yeah it’s a mouthful) is the latest Surface Pro clone and it packs quite the punch.

You want premium looks in a thin and light package? The Elite x2’s got it. The aluminum tablet’s thinner than a Surface Pro 4 at 0.36 inches thick.

You want a bright and sharp screen? The Elite x2’s got it. The 12.3-inch touchscreen is larger than its 11.6-inch predecessor and the resolution’s identical to the Surface Pro 4’s: 2,736 x 1,824. Read more…

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The big news everyone is talking about is Donald Trump firing FBI director James Comey. 

It happened just 10 minutes before Stephen Colbert taped The Late Show, but the late night host had plenty of rounds to fire. 

“That shows no gratitude at all. Did Trump forget about the Hillary emails that Comey talked about?” Colbert said. 

Trump said in a letter that Comey was “not able to effectively lead the Bureau” after the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, but Colbert thinks he has a more plausible explanation. 

“I think he was fired because Comey couldn’t guess the name Rumpelstiltskin,” he joked. Read more…

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Tuesday was budget night in Australia, where people who cared about what the government was going to spend money on were glued to their television screens.

Interrupting the scintillating analysis on TV was an ad by Netflix, promoting the upcoming season of House of Cards. 

But instead of it being about the show, it was styled like your typical Aussie political campaign ad. And you guessed it, plenty of people fell for it.

The ad features two farmers, calling for people to support their chosen political leader — the show’s lead character and current US president, Frank Underwood. Read more…

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