You know there’s a paraphilia for everything, right? This woman is cashing in on people who think it’s hot to watch a woman eat.

And she’s not the only one. Gastronomic voyeurism is the latest fad in South Korea, according to this report. Around 3,000 people are doing it, some sponsored by restaurants. Park Seo-yeon broadcasts herself eating in her apartment for up to three hours every day, and makes more than $9,000 U.S. a month doing it.

I imagine a lot of people’s first thought here is “Nice work if you can get it,” (like this guy) but, in real life, I think this would be horrible. I don’t want to eat for three hours a day. Do you? Blech. Also, it’s kind of amazing that she’s not fatter.

Park says, “People enjoy the vicarious pleasure with my online show when they can’t eat that much, or don’t want to eat food at night, or are on a diet.”

Whatever you need to tell yourself, Doodlebug. But I don’t think that’s why they’re watching you. For the most part. The narrator says, ”Some say it makes eating alone feel less awkward.” Must be a cultural thing. I have no awkwardness with eating along.

Oh my god! Like, two days ago my husband and I were in the kitchen singing Greased Lightning and noting what a filthy song it is for a movie that was rated PG-13 in 1978.

“You won’t get any shit, cuz you’re gettin’ lots of tit…”

“You are supreme, the chicks’ll cream for Grease Lightning…”

“You know that I ain’t bragging, she’s a real pussy wagon…”

I mean whaaaaaaaat? Even today this would be racy for PG-13. Dudes blowing each other’s heads off and dismembering the bodies, sure, but PUSSY WAGON? Chicks’ll cream? Ohemgee.

So, maybe that’s why I appreciate this video of Swedish Marines recreating Greased Lightning as much as I do. Or because it’s they’re ADORABLE. Come on. Where can I get a Swedish Marine of my very own? Is there, like, a pound or a shelter or something? PM me!

What happens is the bunnies get into a scrap and the chicken cops come along and are like, “OK guys. Break it up, break it up.” And the bunnies do what they’re told. I wish someone as effective as these chickens was working my street. Some guy was stabbed on the sidewalk a couple of doors down from me last month. Real talks.

Oh look. Speaking of people who decide to live exclusively off things…

Following hot on the heels of the post about the woman who lived off nothing but Starbucks for a year comes a guy who lived off McDonald’s for three months. I feel like this has been done before, and not just by Morgan Spurlock, whose documentary “Supersize Me” was one of the dumbest movies I’ve ever tried to watch. Seriously. I cannot understand how that thing became a hit. Yes. If you eat a LOT of crap, always choose the unhealthiest thing on the menu and eat as much of it as is humanly possible, you are going to gain weight and be unhealthy. If I hit myself in the face with a hammer, it’s going to hurt. I don’t need to make a movie to prove this. I think, at some point, someone already did a thing where he ate the better things on the McDonald’s menu and lost weight, to refute Spurlock’s, uh, I’ll call it a “point.” Then there’s that Jared guy, who ate nothing but Subway sandwiches and lost about eleventy bazillion pounds.

I can’t imagine ever doing anything like this, because McDonald’s food doesn’t taste very good and I’d go nuts from the lack of variety, but this teacher from Iowa lived off McDonald’s for three months, lost 37 pounds and lowered his cholesterol, proving that, if you choose the healthier items on the menu and don’t stuff your idiot face, you won’t get fat and unhealthy.

(via eBaum’s World)

And here is a dog doing laundry.

Some genius went and invented a washing machine, called “Woof to Wash,” for assistance dogs to do laundry. It’s bark activated and should make your day.

My only question is, aren’t dogs colour blind? And, if so, wouldn’t they have trouble with sorting?

And, oh look! Because this is the internet, I can find out the answer to that question right away. And the answer is that dogs do see colours, just not as richly as we do. OK, then. Carry on…

(Via Incredible Things)

Looking for a way to keep people out of your personal space? Check out Spike Away, an invention from industrial designer Siew Ming Cheng.

As an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, Chen took a workshop by German furniture designer Werner Aisslinger, who told students to create a “Chindogu” solution. Chindogu is “a Japanese term for a gadget designed to solve one mundane, everyday problem,” says Fast Company.

Cheng chose crowding on public transit.

I have mild claustrophobia and major fear of stranger germs, so this invention appeals to me quite a bit.

Via Laughing Squid, Fast Company

Images: Siew Ming Chen

My eagle-eyed friend Neil, always on the lookout for stuff for me to blog about, because he’s just that kind of guy, sent me this video. It didn’t, however, come with an explanation.

It’s called “Late For Meeting” and is by one David Lewandowski.

I guess this floppy naked man is late for a meeting? That seems to be the only explanation.

It appears to be a follow up to “Going to the Store,” also by Lewandowski and starring the same guy.

All I can say about this is hahahahaha.

(via Blame It On the Voices)

This is addictive. And it will make you smile and probably lower your blood pressure.

Neat.

You have to click that above link to see pictures, since I can’t steal them from Reuters.

The 22-year-old man, identified as Xiaolian, was in a traffic accident in 2012, as a result of which his nose was damaged. He didn’t seek treatment and I guess things got bad and now they’re making him a new one, sculpted from cartilage taken from his ribs. A skin tissue expander was also involved. 

“Doctors say that they will soon be able to carry out a transplant operation to replace the damaged nose with the newly grown one.”

I guess the lesson here is, if you damage your nose in a traffic accident, you should seek help, but if you don’t, there are some doctors in China who can grow you a new one.