A series of illustrations that show predators doing what comes naturally - killing - but simultaneously being adorable. For more adorable brutality by Chicago-based artist Alex Solis go here...
Teenage dirtbags
1. My teenager did a loud and flabby fart on the couch, then slowly departed, stretching and waving the waft toward me. He then stopped, bent down to drink the sugar-free pink grapefruit soda I had just procured for myself. "Bed," I instructed him, teeth clenched, eyes cold as a serial killer.
2. I knew a dude at university who kept an old bottle of Smirnoff on his desk and would casually chug straight out of it during conversations with new people to establish dominance.
3. I was running and this car drove past me and a 14-year-old looking kid yelled, "run, fatso, run" out the window. His mother, who was driving, did a u-turn and made him run with me for the rest of my run while she drove alongside.
Customer not always right
Sharon Green, of Bolton, ordered a cake from Occasion Cakes for her 3-year-old daughter's christening. It was decorated with two cute marzipan teddy bears sitting on the cake with the message: "On your Christening Day, Tahlia Rose." When she looked closer at the bears, both were marked with a crease in the middle of their legs, which Green took to represent a vagina."It is completely inappropriate. The cake is supposed to be for a 3-year-old girl. It is not just me who thought this, it was a talking point at the christening - everyone was commenting on it," she told the Bolton News. A rep from the cake shop explains: "The small bear on top of the cake is exactly that - a teddy bear - and the crease on its stomach is supposed to represent the seam where the bear is sewn together," the spokesman said. "We have been making girl and boy teddies this way for 30 years and no one has ever drawn such a bizarre, and, quite frankly, distasteful connection." A shop staff member showed up at the christening to add edible flowers to cover up the bears' perceived immodesty.
At last a website we will be able to dominate: Google Sheep View collects screenshots of sheep found on Google Street View. Because 2015 is Year of the Sheep, apparently. (Come on New Zealand, this site needs your contributions).
Music: Taylor Swift either has largest swinging appendage in the music industry for getting Apple to backdown over not paying artists for the first 3 months to launch their streaming service, or she has a great PR team. Either way her Bad Blood music video without sound, from Amsterdam-based music agency House of Halo, really show off its sexualised violence...
Picture this: The Chair, warns of the dangers of THE CHAIR. From a Victorian school book...
Video: Just when you think no one's looking...
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