10 extremely strange wedding traditions around the world

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10 extremely strange wedding traditions around the world

Wedding is much more than throwing the bouquet, scandalously removing the garter, the couple’s first dance, the cutting of the cake, and the life-affirming moment that the Electric Slide begins. These are all wedding traditions that most of us know and love. Wedding may be a universal celebration, but for some it’s an unbelievable crazy adventure.Around the world, wedding traditions are a little bit different: Some of them are heartwarmingly romantic, and some of them are a little strange, and some of them might make you a little bit uncomfortable. Check out these 10 love and marriage customs from around the globe.It can be gross, confusing or terrifying. Imagine shooting the bride or marrying a banana tree. How’s that for a wedding?

The Blackening of the Bride

In Scotland, there is a particularly nasty pre-wedding tradition that involves the bride and groom being pelted with food trash, including rotten eggs and fish. The Scots believe that if a couple can withstand this, their marriage can withstand anything.

The Bridesmaid Blockade

In China, when a groom comes to get his bride, he must first break through an aggressive wall of her angry bridesmaids. The bridesmaids demand money from him, and put him through a series of silly performances and tasks – all meant to prove just how strong his love really is.

The Courting Hut

Some African tribes allow women to enter a “courting hut” so they can hang out with potential spouses away from the prying eyes of their parents – and the rest of the village.

The Bridal Kidnapping

In Krygyzstan, an old adage claims that tears on a wedding day will make for a happy marriage. Until 1991 (when it was finally made illegal) many parents would consent to the marriage of a kidnapped young girl, especially if she was crying.

The Graveside Wedding

In an average display of somberness and seriousness, many Russians choose to be married at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.

The Love Without Bathroom Breaks

In Borneo, one tribe does not allow newlyweds to leave their homes during their wedding day, not even to go to the bathroom. Like most odd traditions, it is said to bring the couple good luck.

The Gerewol Festival for the Ladies

In Niger, men have to dress in elaborate costumes and perform for their potential mates. When the performance is over, the women get to choose the man they like best.

Beating the groom’s feet: Korea

Korean tradition dictates that the groom has his feet beaten with fish or a cane before his first night as a married man. It can be painful but it’s over quickly and more fun than cruel. This is supposed to make sure the groom doesn’t disappoint on his wedding night.

The Questionable Mate-Grabbing

In some gypsy groups, there is a controversial tradition that involves male suitors to grab a girl and start forcefully kissing her. It might be love – or it just might be an unwanted assault.

Spitting on the Bride: Massai nation, Kenya

At a Massai wedding, the father of the bride blesses his daughter by spitting on her head and breasts. She then leaves the village with her husband and does not look back for fear of turning into stone.

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These Regular People Actually Think They Look Like Celebrities!

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These Regular People Actually Think They Look Like Celebrities!

With actors, actresses, and musicians constantly in the media, you can expect them to always be looking good. Most regular people don’t look like these stunning Hollywood stars, but that doesn’t stop them from trying to convince others they look like a celeb.Everybody knows that Beyoncé is flawless so you shouldn’t even compare yourself to someone that perfect. But according to Shayaqua, ‘everyone’ says she looks like the ‘Single Ladies’ singer. Sorry girl, but we don’t see the resemblance at all.

Taylor Swift has the ‘girl-next-door’ image so we understand if a lot of people want to look like her. The young woman is topping all of the charts and is probably one of the biggest artists in the world right now. Her celebrity status is through the roof so she probably doesn’t get much privacy. Just like Taylor, this young girl says that she can’t even go to the mall because of her uncanny resemblance to the ‘Bad Blood’ singer. The paparazzi and fans must be such a burden.

Justin Bieber is one singer that many fangirls are swooning over. With so many teenage girls falling for the singer everyday, teenage boys will do anything to look like Bieber. According to James Lewis, one of his nurses told him that he looked like the ‘Sorry’ singer. Perhaps maybe at a certain angle or with some different lighting? 

Channing Tatum is in his thirties while this young boy looks like he is twelve. Despite the obvious age gap, this kid says he gets mistaken for Tatum ‘all the time’.

Apparently Pat Stevens gets mistaken for Rihanna. To prove her point she took it to Twitter to see what the public had to say about her appearance.All you have to do is retweet the image if you agree. She ended up getting over 69,000 RTs but we are probably sure most of these RTs are in on the joke.

Britney Spears is one of the artists that managed to stay relevant since the beginning of her success. This Twitter user asked, ‘Is it just me or do I look like Britney Spears?’ It’s just you.

When it comes to reality television, the Kardashian/Jenner clan definitely take the crown for the queens of reality.All of them have managed to succeed in their respective area, including the youngest one Kylie. Most people know her for her luscious lips and crazy hair colors. Do you think this girl looks like the 18-year-old Jenner?

This dude says people compared to Drake however he doesn’t know if that is a worthy comparison. We don’t know either.

There seems to be some pretty good acting genes in the Franco family bloodline. Both Dave and James Franco are pretty huge stars in Hollywood who have a ton of fans screaming their name.This guy tweeted a selfie of himself wearing a blue beanie and some aviators claiming that his mom says he looks like James. Well considering he covered half of his face, we can ‘kind of’ see it.



Twitter user @BiebersShanice tweeted a selfie of herself asking her followers to retweet the picture if they think she looked like Kim Kardashian. One of her followers did, but only to add a comment telling her she doesn’t.

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Top 12 Deadliest Drugs and How They Kill You!

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Top 12 Deadliest Street Drugs!

Everyone drugs are incredibly dangerous. They can cause all sorts of health issues, including death. Some are more well known than others.

Drugs are illegal, and some of these narcotics are deadlier than others. They can have dangerous side effects, and make the user incoherent. These are the top 12 street drugs that you may or may not have heard of before. They are more common than you might think, and can be lethal.

1. The first one is called Sizzurp or ‘Purple Drank.’ It is a concoction of soda water, candy and cold medicine. There is a high codeine content in the cold medicine which gives the users a woozy feeling. It has been known to cause heart failure and seizures. 

2. AH-7921 is a synthetic opioid that was previously available to legally purchase online from vendors until it became a Class A in 2015. It has similar effects that heroine has, but the lack of human testing is why this drug is considered very dangerous. It is believed to have 80% of the potency of morphine.

3. Flakka is a synthetic drug that can cause an aggressive high for users. It has a cheap street value which is partially why it is so popular among users. People may experience ‘excited delirium’ which includes hyperstimulation, paranoia, and hallucinations. It has been reported to be the cause of many overdoses and suicides.

4. Heroine is 2-4 times more potent than morphine and causes bodily function to slow down. If mixed with alcohol, the results can be deadly. Side effects include inflammation of gums, muscular weakness, and more devastating symptoms.

5. Crack cocaine is believed to kill roughly six thousand people a year. It also causes symptoms such as psychosis, heart attacks, strokes and can cause death.

6. Crystal meth is one of the most destructive drugs in the world. The effects are very serious, with short-term users becoming sleep deprived and anxious. The long term effects will cause brain damage, damage of the blood vessels, and the flesh to sink. 

7. Bath salts are a synthetic crystalline drug that is similar to mephedrone, and cause a ‘zombification’ for users. The side effects include unusual and psychiatric behavior, psychosis, panic attacks and violent behavior. There is a possibility of an elevated body temperature and a heart attack.

8. Scopolamine is a derivative from the nightshade plant found in the Northern Indian region of South America, in places like Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. It can be found in a powder form or tea, and is incredibly toxic. One gram is believed to be able to kill up to 20 people. It is believed that when it is blown into someone’s face it causes them to lose all sense of self-control and make them incapable of forming memories. It can cause hallucinations and respiratory failure. 

9. Whoonga is a combination of antiretroviral drugs, used to treat HIV, and various cutting agents such as detergents and poisons. It is widely available in South Africa, and is very cheap. It is highly addictive and can cause major issues such as bleeding, stomach ulcers and ultimately death. 

  

10. Krokodil is a heroin opiate which is a mix of codeine, gasoline, and eyedrops. It gives the user a rush of euphoria for the third of the price. It eats your flesh, causes gangrene and rots your flesh from the inside out. Addicts are expected to live only a year as it causes brain damage, organ failure, and HIV. 

11. LSD stands for Lysergic acid diethylamide, and can cause hallucinations that have the ability to change the life of the user. It comes in the form of tablets and liquid form as well, and used all over the world illegally. 

12. Phencyclidine (PCP) was developed in the 1950s as an anesthetic. It causes side effects of hallucinations, delirium, and mania. 

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Husband And Wife Live In Beautiful Cave Together!

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They Live In A Cave Together. But When You See Inside Their Home... Fascinating!

 

Cathy and her husband Randy purchased a unique little piece of property in Arizona. The only problem? There was absolutely nowhere they could build a home on the land, as it was too vertical. One day, while Cathy was outside exploring, she heard a massive explosion down the road. It was no accident, it was her neighbor, a mining engineer. He was blowing out the inside of a rock to build a cave home. 

Cathy quite liked the idea, so she and her husband followed suit. The couple feels very much at home, and Cathy thinks that might have something to do with our previous cave-dwelling ancestors. However, their home looks anything but prehistoric. 

The cave has remarkably high ceilings and three bedrooms. It’s 2,568 square feet and it contains a kitchen, dining room, living room, and loft bed. Their deck overlooks the entire mountain range. Stunningly, inside of their house there’s a spring that produces 20 gallons of delicious, clean water filtered through 80 feet of granite.

"I’ve never lived in a house this wonderful, anywhere,” Cathy said. “It will be very hard to leave this house."

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How chat apps are transforming the global conversation

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How chat apps are transforming the global conversation

The world loves to chat, and mobile phones have made instant yakking as easy as pie, whether by text, video, photo, voice, or all methods combined.

No wonder so many of us blunder into lamp-posts and each other rather than looking where we're going.But which dedicated chat app do you use? WhatsApp, Snapchat, Viber, Line? That largely depends on where in the world you live.In China the biggest chat network is WeChat; in Japan the market leader is Line; KakaoTalk rules OK in Korea; Kik is huge in Canada and the US; Hike bosses India; while in the Arab world niche networks such as Palringo and Soma dominate.And the number of chat platforms continues to proliferate, as tech companies aim to emulate the eye-watering valuations achieved by the leaders.Snapchat was recently valued at nearly $20bn (£15bn). Facebook bought WhatsApp for $22bn in 2014 and this week changed the app's privacy policy to allow businesses to message its billion-plus users directly.In July, Line raised about $1.3bn in a stock market flotation that valued the company at around $6bn. And now chat networks are even investing in each other, with China's WeChat recently leading a $175m funding round in India's Hike network.But can the market sustain so many platforms? Can we have too much chat?

Talkaholics

In 1993, US researchers James C McCroskey and Virginia P Richmond created the Talkaholic Scale, a method of identifying people who were aware of their tendencies to "over-communicate in a consistent and compulsive manner".In the intervening two decades, this scale could be applied to the way people obsess about their mobile devices. 

Initially it was SMS and text messaging that made such communication compulsive. Then it was instant messaging with text, photos and videos.And now you can access banking, shopping and other services within these chat apps."WhatsApp, WeChat, Line, Snapchat and a handful of others would seem to have the platform side sewn up as we head towards a one-stop-shop approach, where messaging apps become almost a command line for people's lives," says Eamonn Carey from Techstars, the tech start-up accelerator.So how do the newcomers differentiate themselves in such a crowded market and keep their users loyal?

Chat goes niche

The trend is towards chat that can be conducted in a safe place by users who share a common interest.

"Niche networks will have a big role to play in what otherwise is a saturated market," says Mr Carey.

For example, London-based Palringo is a social chat platform that helps people find games that can be played in chat groups of up to 2,000 people.This combination of chat and games helped Palringo become one of the fastest-growing UK tech companies last year, with these chat games making up to 50% of its revenues through in-game purchases."The proliferation of chat networks when there are different territory-specific market leaders meant we had to find a common language," says Palringo chief executive Tim Rea."That language is games and we're seeing huge growth with our in-chat games."Wire offers chat with ad-free embedded YouTube videos and gifs (short animations).Backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, the company says it is attracting 200,000 users a month. It focuses on privacy as its unique selling point.Co-founder and chief technology officer Alan Duric explains: "Wire is a privacy-focused messaging app that works across devices and incorporates chat features that users love - text, voice, video and pictures - underpinned by end-to-end encryption that is completely open sourced."Popular chat app Telegram has also emphasised encryption as a key feature, much to the annoyance of European leaders concerned about the use of such secret platforms by potential terrorists.

What's the story?

But the battle to keep users is even more fierce than the battle to attract them. Chatters are a fickle lot it seems.In August, picture messaging app Instagram released its "Stories" feature where users can post moments of their day in a slideshow of video, photos and captions.This feature almost replicates a similar component that has proved very successful on rival chat network SnapChat, uncannily also known as "Stories".This duplication of content reflects how users of chat networks are quick to jump ship if another app is offering something new and appealing.According to a survey of 30,000 people aged 12-25 from comparison app Wishbone, 43% of respondents would delete Snapchat if Instagram's new Stories emulated the popular "filters" feature originally created by Snapchat.Filters enable chatters to distort their photos and overlay them with cartoonish add-ons, from a dog's ears to a cat's whiskers.

Biz buzz

Away from the consumer world, business chat apps are also flourishing.Intercom is a messaging platform that is trying to establish itself as a business platform, while having the look and feel of the best consumer messaging apps. It works with 13,000 businesses and more than a billion people use it.

"What's really exciting to us is the potential of messaging, as it is the most personal medium we haveto communicate virtually," says Eoghan McCabe, Intercom's chief executive."Businesses can use messaging to avoid being faceless, stuffy brands and connect on a human level with their customers."

There are plenty of others, from Slack to Flock, HipChat to Zapier - the list seems endless.Although chat apps don't appear to have reached saturation point just yet, new entrants are having to box clever to find their niche in this ever-expanding market.Not all may survive, but with the number of global smartphone users forecast to rise from about two billion now to nearly three billion in 2020, it looks like there's going to be a lot more chatting going on.

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15 Ways to Keep Your Stuff Looking Like New!

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15 tricks to keep your things looking brand new

 

An itchy sweater, stains on your new shoes, a broken zip — you’re never going to encounter any of these irritating little problems again. Because as it turns out, there are plenty of simple little tricks you can use to avoid them. And we’re going to share them all just with you.

1. Getting the perfect sweater

Stop your sweaters from shedding by sticking them in the freezer overnight. If you have a cashmere or wool sweater that won’t stop shedding, toss it in the freezer before each wear.

2. Stopping your clothes from smelling bad

Spray a small amount of vodka on your clothes to eliminate strong odours. If you don’t have time to wash a shirt before wearing it again but it has a strong, lingering smell, just spray on some vodka and let it dry. The alcohol will kill odor-causing bacteria.

3. Getting rid of foundation cream

Fix foundation stains with a little bit of shaving cream. If you take off your shirt and accidentally smudge your makeup on the collar, just wipe a dollop of shaving cream on the spot to pretreat it before tossing it in the wash.

4. Getting rid of lipstick stains

Use hairspray to remove a lipstick stain. Spray the fabric (make sure it’s not dry-clean only) with hairspray, and let it sit for a few minutes. Dab the stain, and then toss it in the washer.

5. Cleaning suede shoes

Clean stubborn dirt off suede shoes with a nail file. Just buff it right out.

6. Cleaning stains from leather boots

Scrub off water stains on leather boots with a soft toothbrush and vinegar. If your boots are ruined from water, snow, salt, or all of the above, dip a soft-bristled toothbrush in white vinegar and gently rub to remove the stain.

7. Maintaining patent leather shoes in perfect condition

Fix a scuff on a patent leather shoe with a cotton swab and some petroleum jelly.

8. Mending dull or scratched leather shoes

Mend dull or scratched leather shoes with moisturizer. If you don’t have shoe polish (Who does?), grab a towel and rub your shoes with a bit of lotion to bring them back to life.

9. Tightening up a button

Paint clear nail polish over a loose button thread to temporarily stop it from unraveling. No need to learn how to sew on a button just yet.

10. Maintaining your sunglasses

Tighten your sunglasses with a dab of clear nail polish. If the arm of your sunglasses is a bit loose and you don’t have a tiny screwdriver handy, paint a small bit of polish over the hinge to temporarily tighten it.

11. Fixing torn underwear

Fix underwire that’s poking out of your bra with a patch of adhesive moleskin.

12. Getting rid of oil stains

Use dishwashing liquid to lift oil stains from delicate clothing. The dish soap will remove oil or grease and is also gentle enough to use on clothes.

13. Fixing a stuck zipper

Fix a stuck zipper with a cotton swab and petroleum jelly.

14. Getting rid of sweat stains

Erase unsightly armpit stains with lemon juice or baking soda. Scrub out the stains with a mixture of lemon juice and water. For tough armpit stains, try rubbing a paste of baking soda and water on the stain, letting it sit for a few minutes, and then rinsing it off before throwing it in the wash.

15. Stopping your sneakers from smelling

Pour a little bit of baking soda in your sneakers after a workout to soak up the sweat and eliminate odor.

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