Actor Macaulay Culkin recently reprised his role in the movie Home Alone, 25 years on with a creepy, dark humor short film. Now one of the guys he "terrorized" as a kid has responded.
The Inquisitr reported the story of how Macaulay Culkin featured in the first episode of Jack Dishel's new NSFW video series, :DRYVRS, a dark comedy showthat parodies Uber and Lyft driving experiences.
In that short video, Culkin, starring as Kevin McAllister, the unlucky kid who got left alone at home not once, but TWICE by his parents, reprises the role - clearly showing the psychological damage caused by his experiences. See the viral video here:
Now Daniel Stern, who played one of the thieves in the cult classic, Home Alone, had reprised HIS role too.
In the homemade video, included below, Stern begs for help, telling viewers, "I saw it on the Internet! The kid is coming to get us."
Speaking of the bloodthirsty actions by Culkin's character in the :DRYVRS episode, Stern adds that Culkin's character, Kevin, is seeking revenge against him and his Wet Bandit partner, saying, "He's coming for all of the home invaders and
he's gonna come get us."
With Home Alone screened on TV every Christmas, no doubt the parodies will continue! Watch Stern in the video below.
You might think people who use the "F" word on a regular basis are
lacking in a broader vocabulary to use, however science has now proved
this to be wrong.
According to a scientific study, people who curse a
lot actually have a bigger vocabulary than those who don't.
If you
tend to curse a lot, someone, somewhere along the way may have accused
you of being less intelligent, but that has turned out to be basically
incorrect. If you use all the wrong and taboo words, inserting the "F"
word and other expletives into your conversation on a regular basis, a
new study has shown you are likely to have a much richer vocabulary than
those who don't utter a foul phrase.
Stephen Fry once memorably said,
"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a
lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just f*cking lunatic." Hear his words of wisdom in the video included at the end of this article.
And
it turns out he is right. Anyone with a good repertoire of curse words
isn't lacking in better words to express themselves and usually has a
far broader vocabulary.
A study was run by psychologists Kristin
Jay and Timothy Jay of Marist College and the Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts and came up with the hypothesis that people with a healthy
selection of curse words on hand are actually more likely to have a
great overall language fluency available to them too.
According to the New York Daily News,
in the first part of their study, the team got together 43
participants, consisting of 30 women and 13 men aged between 18 and 22
years. They asked the participants to rattle off as many curse words as they could in 60 seconds.
The
next part of the test saw the participants reciting as many animal
names as they could think of in 60 seconds. The researchers then used
the animal names recited by each person as an indication of their
overall vocabulary and interest in language.
Participants were
allowed to use any normal American English curse word or offensive
phrase and the group ended up with a total of 533 curse words and
phrases, including some more obscure and flowery phrases like "ass
pirate" and "cum dumpster."
The people involved in the study were
also submitted to some standardized verbal fluency tests, or FAS tasks
as they are known. These are a kind of psychological test where
participants are required to say as many words from a particular
category as possible within a given space of time (usually 60 seconds),
much like the curse words test.
The researchers ran a second
experiment in which another 49 participants, consisting of 34 women and
15 men this time, aged between 18 and 22 years. In a similar way, the
group was asked to write down as many curse words and animal names as
they could, starting with the letter "A." There were also FAS tasks to
perform to assess the participants overall language fluency.
The results of the research have been published in the journal Language Sciences and titled: "Taboo word fluency and knowledge of slurs and general pejoratives: deconstructing the poverty-of-vocabulary myth."
The study showed that the more expressive curse
words were generated at a higher rate than mere slurs and that there
was very little difference between what the male and female participants
came up with.
The report read: "[C]onsistent with findings that
do not show a sex difference in taboo lexicon size, no overall sex
difference in taboo word generation was obtained." So it seems the
ladies can keep up quite nicely with the men.
The research also
found that a "voluminous taboo lexicon may better be considered an
indicator of healthy verbal abilities rather than a cover for their
deficiencies."
"Speakers who use taboo words
understand their general expressive content as well as nuanced
distinctions that must be drawn to use slurs appropriately. The ability
to make nuanced distinctions indicates the presence of more rather than
less linguistic knowledge, as implied by the POV [Poverty of Vocabulary]
view."
So there you go, don't hold back and just
curse away. Admittedly the study did use a small sample size with a
limited age group involved, so more research into cursing as related to
vocabulary is probably required to fully confirm the results.
Besides
the larger vocabulary, according to a recent tweet -- and while not
officially confirmed -- it turns out cursing could even help when
inflicted with pain. What is the first word that comes to your mouth if
you, for instance, accidentally hit your thumb with a hammer?
Cursing when in pain releases Enkephalin, which raises your pain tolerance causing you to hurt less.
— What The F*** Facts (@WhatTheFFacts) December 15, 2015
While the weather was pretty chilly in Barcelona over the weekend, this didn't stop anti-leather protesters from stripping off and splashing themselves with fake blood.
Photo courtesy AnimaNaturalis
Almost 200 people braved the weather and stripped off their clothing, splashing themselves with fake blood this weekend in a protest against the use of animal skins and fur in clothing.
According to Francisco
Vásquez Neira, the president of AnimaNaturalis International, which
staged the protest, every year the demonstration is betting bigger and bigger.
"Thanks to
social media, we are getting more attention than ever."
On the group's website they state, "For the tenth consecutive year, more than a hundred
people from around Spain and across the world gathered in Barcelona to
brave the cold winter temperatures and get naked to protest against the
use of animal skin."
As per the website for AnimaNaturalis, the demonstrators lay one on top of the other in the protest "like the bodies of the
dead animals once they have been skinned."
The protesters displayed signs reading, "How many lives just for a coat?" in English, Spanish and Catalan.
Aída Gascón the head of
AnimaNaturalis in Spain told The Local, "Leather garments have been wrongly associated with luxury and fashion
and this is the way of thinking that must change because if there is no
demand, there will be no supply."
New Moms and Dads, Dr Robert C. Hamilton from Pacific Ocean Pediatrics in Santa Monica, California is about to make your life a whole lot simpler.
This simple and gentle hold can almost immediately calm a crying baby and in the process soothe your stretched nerves. Watch him perform the hold on several babies in the video below.
A breakdown of the hold is as follows:
Gently fold the arms across the chest, one by one.
Secure the arms gently with one hand.
With the other hand, securely grasp the baby's butt.
Rock or gyrate the baby at a 45 degree angle.
Simple as that - baby is now calm. It's a pleasure -- you can thank me by sharing this with other needy parents! :)
