Apparently I have Been Putting Band Aids On Completely Wrong For My Whole Life. I Had No Clue.
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What I love about the Crazy Russian Hacker, other than his accent and hilarious attitude, is that he finds solutions for things that are actually useful for most everyone. He targets those little annoyances or problems that always are a bother, and he solves the problem.
There is nothing worse than getting a cut in an awkward place, like the end of your finger that really needs band-aid protection. As you have probably all experienced, certain parts of the body, like this, just doesn’t hold a band-aid; they keep falling off.
Band-aids are made in all shapes and sizes that you would think would cover such issues, but as the Crazy Russian illustrates for us in the video below, people come in different shapes and sizes which sometimes requires a “custom made Band-aid”. Kids and adults, men and women…all have different size needs that this hack provides.
Watch the following footage as he shows us which shape Band-aid works best for customizing your needs, to get maximum coverage and flexibility. He has really come up with a great hack for those “hard to cover areas”.
Let us know if you ever tried this technique!
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She Starts Cutting Off The Top Of This Salt Shaker. But When She’s Done It’s Surprisingly Brilliant!
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The mason jar phenomenon has taken a firm hold in society and the handy glass jars are no longer only used for their original intended purpose, canning food. These days people use them for just about anything and everything one can imagine. Odds are you have a few in your own home and if not they are quite inexpensive and widely available at many stores.
Beyond storing foods and other items, they also make handy drinking glasses, neat soap dispensers, candle holders, lanterns, and more. Here is an additional way to get the most use out of any spare mason jars you may have sitting around. In this short video YouTube channel ThriftyFun shows how to make a simple and convenient easy pour top for a mason jar.
All you need is a salt container with a pour spout, a knife, and a mason jar with a ring that fits onto it. Start by carefully cutting the top off of the salt container. Flip it upside down and place the top of the mason jar on it, then trace around the rim opening with a pencil. Cut the traced circle out and then place it on top of the jar as you would with a lid.
Screw it on securely with the jar ring and check to make sure that it fits, trimming it if necessary. That’s all it takes and now you can fill up the jar with whatever you want. When it comes time to pour stuff out the modified top makes it much easier to measure and control, it won’t dump out all over the place. This works great for dry, messy, powdery things such as glitter and beads or other small craft items.
It also comes in handy in the kitchen and is perfect for storing seasonings, rice, sugar, flour, and of course salt!
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It Seems Like A Normal Leaf Pile But Keep Your Eyes On The Center For An Unexpected Surprise!
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It oftentimes turns out that the things which bring us the most joy in life are relatively simple. One such simple joy is playing in a massive pile of leaves. It’s easily one the most fun things that a child, adult, or dog can ever do in the fall. There is just something wonderful about leaping up in the air and crashing down into a pile of soft, crunchy, crinkly old leaves.
If the pile is large enough it can even swallow you whole, and popping out of them is just as fun as going in! It’s like leaf piles were meant to be played in, they are the perfect material for building up and jumping into, and act like a natural cushion. Humans are not the only creatures who love frolicking in leaves. Dogs are especially up for a romp through them as well, like this adorable yellow lab named Stella.
She is having a blast in the clip, ripping through the piles and jumping into them without hesitation, like a leaf diving professional. When her human companion throws a toy into them she bolts after it, searching through and disappearing under the masses of crunchy leaves over and over again.
She looks so darn cute when her head pops up out of the leaves. It looks like she is smiling even with the ball in her mouth! Stella is proof of the fact that fun and games just don’t get tiring when you’re outdoors playing in the cool, crisp autumn leaves and air. She’s one cute and energetic lab who knows how to make the most of what she has to play with.
Of course, the one thing everyone should be on the look out for when leaf pile jumping is dog poo (and sticks). They can get raked up with the leaves and no one wants to jump into a tainted pile. All the more reason to pick up after pets, or to train them to do their business in specific areas that are not on the lawn.
Once you dodge the poo problem, you’re set to jump into a pile of what can be aptly be described as heaven. Bombs away!
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14 Soldiers Had Their Pictures Taken Before, During, And After War. The Results Are Disturbing!
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The ravages of war can be seen everywhere, both while it’s raging and long after the conflict has passed. The destruction and harm that’s inflicted on property, buildings, the landscape, families, people’s lives, and so much more ends up devastating and destroying vast areas and cities.
It’s a fact that the effects of war change people, how could it not? Bearing witness to shocking acts of brutality and seeing pain and suffering being inflicted, day after day until you’re numb to it, would profoundly impact a person. That’s part of why a significant amount of our nations Veterans end up suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other types of traumatic brain injuries.
The long term mental, emotional, and spiritual repercussions of war are hard to describe and even harder to ascertain or begin to fully understand. Perhaps that is why these photographs of soldiers taken before, during, and after tours of duty in Afghanistan are so powerful.
The men’s faces stare back starkly at the viewer and convey so much feeling and emotion, yet at the same time there is something missing and haunting about all of them. The physical changes across the board are surprising and revealing all at once. The men turn from normal and carefree looking to stressed, gaunt, hardened soldiers.
However, it’s the eyes that show the most emotion and pain, and they reveal the true costs that war has on people. The pictures were captured by British photojournalist Lalage Snow while she was based in Afghanistan back in 2010. She was on assignment and had followed the lives and experiences of a group of soldiers from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
Snow spent a period of seven months documenting the soldiers who had been deployed to Afghanistan on a mission to help train the new Afghan Army. The first picture she took of each man was done before they were sent abroad and while they were still in the UK.
The second photo was taken after the men had spent 3 months in Afghanistan on the battlefield, and the third final photograph was taken just three days after they had returned home. The series of portraits, along with interviews of the men, comprise Snow’s “We Are The Not Dead” Project.
Her goal for the work was to not only honor the soldier’s bravery, but to also shed light on the mental and emotional wounds that war leaves behind on those who serve their countries.
Not every injury is physical and more needs to be done all around to help veterans returning from combat.
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This Baby Was Stolen From His Mother. Now Watch His Response When He’s Rescued!
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Orangutans seem to be coming up a lot lately in social media. Probably because they are unbelievably adorable, but also because they are in need of help often due to their impending extinction. Organizations in Borneo and Sumatra are working hard to care for and protect the rapidly dwindling population of orangutans in Indonesia.
These rehab centers are reaching out to all over the world for support in their efforts to keep the apes alive and thriving. The decline in the species is due completely to human activities. Deforestation due to palm oil harvesting has imposed on the health of orangutans by destroying their habitat.
The apes are also hunted for profitable re-sale and the novelty of consumption. Because orangutans are very bonded to their mothers as babies, their capture is typically achieved by the murder of the protective mother, hence removing two individuals from the population at a time.
The baby orangutan in this video, named Rickina, is being nurtured by the IAR Ketapang Orangutan Rescue Center in Borneo. Rickina was confiscated from a man who claimed her mother was so startled by his presence in the rain forest that she ran away from her baby. Lies. He picked up the baby and in doing so, somehow slashed a gaping wound in her head with his machete.
Sounds like an innocent accident, right? Support orangutan conservation by pledging to Orangutan Outreach via their website: http://redapes.org/adopt
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Ducks Released From Rusty Cages After Years Inside. Watch Their Reaction To Water For The First Time!
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A hoarder had kept a group of ducks caged in pens for years, without sufficient access to food or water. Thankfully they were rescued by the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary who came to the conclusion that these ducks had never even been IN water. Imagine it’s like living on earth as a human and never breathing air.
After being brought back to health, the rescuers had plans for getting these ducks acclimated to what should have been their natural habitat. As you will see in the video below, the saying that “they took to it like a duck to water”… well not exactly! But nonetheless it’s a true pleasure to watch these beautiful creatures in their natural habitat after years of neglect.
Watching this group of rehabilitated ducks experience water for the first time is at once, surprising and delightful. Ducks become “imprinted” to their mother as babies, following her in what looks like a choreographed formation. They continue to follow each other in this group formation, as you will see…except when they encounter this strange thing called a pond.
Watch what happens in this uplifting footage below. It will give you a great feeling all day!
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