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Some very counfusing photos you have to look twice to understand – Confusing perspective

PWB — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:41:48 +0000

If someone says chicken, we immediately think of KFC. But this tasty meat came from a bird, that is now only raised for meat and egg. Usually we think of live chicken, we mostly know of white farm chicken But there are many types chicken around the word, and some of they so pretty that you want to keep them as pet.

#1 Log Dog – looking like a very long dog cut into two pieces

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#2 Llama rining a small bell

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#3 Houses about to be drowned under big waves, the clouds looks like the ocean

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#4 Rough prostate exam on football field

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#5 Giant man Gulliver walking on sea water

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#6 Cateption, two headed weired cat

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#7 Flying Ship

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#8 Burning trees or rocket launcher?

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#9 Where’s the bike’s front wheel?

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#10 This footballer is very flexible

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#11 Dog from chernobyl

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#12 A perfect camouflage

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#13 These are not leaves, but Australian budgerigar

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#14 Touch me not you long hand

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#15 Looks like a huy is swimming

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#16 Real or photoshopped? It’s real though

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#17 Dog Mama

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#18 Dog in bubble

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#19 Invisible awards

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#20 Judgemental dog reading on the

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#21 Hanging or floating ship?

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#22 Where this plane is going?

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#23 Alien Ship in the sky

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#24 Floating cat

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#25 This caterpillar is so beautiful, os is it?

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#26 Dad with tiny legs

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#27 Dog from horror movie

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#29 It will take some time for your brain to grasp this image, a face-off

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#30 Woman floating on the street

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#31 Grass pants?

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#32 Dad with fancy hair

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#33 Cat flying in his spaceship

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#34 Dog eith girl head

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#35 Clouds look like ocean

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WOW, There are so many types of chicken!

PWB — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 08:27:19 +0000

#1 Silkie Chicken – A very cute fluffy ball with black skin and meat

If not the most beautiful, but certainly the cutest chicken in Silkie or Silky chicken (also known Chinese silk chicken). The feather feels like silk or satin, very smooth to touch. It is a small chicken, weighs from 0.5kg to 1.5 kg. The chicken looks like a small fluffy fur ball because of very unique fluffy looking feathers. Silkie chicken has a few other unique features too; it has blue earlobes, five toes on each foot (most chicken has four). The most unique feature in it has black or bluish skin and bones and grayish-black meat. Silkie is a common exhibit in poultry shows.

Source: Wikipedia, Canva

#2 Polish Chicken – A Rockstar Chicken

A very common exhibit of poultry shows is Polish Chicken because of it’s beautiful crest of feathers. It’s rockstar in a chicken world.

Source: Wikipedia, Canva

#3 Brahma Chicken

A very large and beautiful chicken breed. It is the second largest breed of chicken but the largest single chicken ever recorded is a ginat 3 ft. tall brhma chicken named Merakli (source). The chicken is easily recognigeable fo its size and feathers on shanks and toes.

Source: Canva, Ourpets HQ

#4 Ayam Cemani

Ayam cemani is a rare breed of chicken that is all black, from inside and outside. As mention in National Geographic, “

The Ayam cemani chicken may be the most deeply pigmented creature on earth. Not only are the bird’s feathers, beak, comb, tongue, and toes a striking, blue-ish black, but so are its bones.

Even the chicken’s meat looks like it has been marinated in squid ink.”

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#5 Playmouth Rock Chicken

Playmouth rock is a domestic American breed chicken. Though it has few other colors, the commonly found chickens feathers are kind of patterned, sharply defined black and white

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Most unique, unusual and crazy hotels in the world – Part 1

PWB — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 15:47:31 +0000

Slowly we are coming out of the Covid restrictions, and feeling like roaming around the world or at least to somewhere near. It will feel great if we can stay few days in a hotel (of course, didn’t mean to stay inside a room again) but to visit new place with new experience. So, here we present a list of hotels and resort that are totally unique, very unusual and outward crazy. I know most of us cannot visit these unique hotels, but looking at the images of these cool place shall surely relax your mind.

#1 Glass Igloos, Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort, Finland

Glass Igloos is a very spectacular hotel / resort, because of spectacular surrounding and top glass ceiling. You can view Aurora, the Northern lights, lying down on your bed. As the name suggest this is Igloo shaped thermal glass hotel room or cottage, each one is in little distance from other. The Igloos are located in the Saariselkä Fell region of Finnish Lapland. Each igloo feature a bedroom with a glass roof and luxury beds. Some igloos include a bathroom with sauna, while others have shared shower facilities. It cost around US$ 700.

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#2 Faralda Crane Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

As CNN mentioned “An unusual hotel you won’t believe actually exists”, it is truly one of a kind. The hotel is built in an abandoned crane. It has only three rooms or suite, Mystique, Free Spirit and Secret. The interiors are different for each setting. Staying there is definitely an unique experience. The hotel is located in the middle of the industrial NDSM heritage, a former shipyard now a lively area with numerous trendy restaurants and cafés. The view from your suite over Amsterdam is extraordinary. The largest graffiti museum in the world is only 150 meteres from this unique hotel. The cost is €895 (around US$ 1000) per night.

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#3 SiloStay, New Zealand

This hotel rooms are in silo, specifically it contains two rooms in two floors. If you don’t know what is silo, you read it in wikipedia here. The lower floors has a dining area and a toilet. The upper floor has a bed for couple, a bathroom and a small balcony. Some of the silos have kitchen at the ground floor. The way they promote is amazing, “SiloStay’s team view Little River’s isolation and peacefulness as a definitive bonus, placing us at the forefront of civilizations quest for inner peace and tranquility.” The view is very relaxing The cost is around NZ$ 200 to NZ$230 (US$140 to US$160) per night.

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Image source: Hotel Website

#4 Giraffe Manor, Kenya

A very unique hotel where you live or have kind of live-in experience with giraffe. This beautiful tallest creatue will share meal with you. The hotel looks like a old age british era large house. Giraffe manor is situated in Nairaobi, Kenya and is owned by The Safari Collection. This is an exclusive boutique hotel. “One of the most fascinating things about Giraffe Manor is its resident herd of Rothschild’s giraffes who may visit morning and evening, poking their long necks into the windows in the hope of a treat, before retreating to their forest sanctuary.” Touted as “The most unforgettable bucket-list breakfast in the world” by the hotel website. Price starts from US$965 per adult.

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Confusing mindfuck plot twist movies from the list of great movies to watch

PWB — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 14:39:41 +0000

There are movies that we enjoy, remember for few days and then forget them. There are some blockbuster movies with very strong fan followings. But there are very few movies that makes one’s brain twist and turns inside the skull. These movies are rewinded and watched from beginning to make senses of what we are seeing. And long after we watched them, we still think of those mindfuck movies. Here, ladies and gentlemen, a list of very confusing mindfuck plot twist movies of all time. This is part of series of ‘great movies to watch’.

For rating of each movies, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores are used. The explanation of the rating are; IMDB: Score out of ten, Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer (Critic Scores) in % / Audience Score in %, Metacritic: Metascore (Critic Review) out of 100 / User Score out of 10.

#1 Inception (2010)

Movie Snippet

“A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.” – IMDb

Genre

Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Heist film, Film Noir (!!!)

Director

Christopher Nolan

Stars

Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe

Ratings

IMDb: 8.1/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 87% / 91% | Metacritic: 74 / 8.8

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

Even after a decade of it’s release, people are still trying to find the meaning of the ending. And the director & writer Christopher Nolan never answered. The movie blur the idea of reality and dream. The director said “the idea of people sharing a dream space… That gives you the ability to access somebody’s unconscious mind. What would that be used and abused for?”

#2 Memento (2000)

Movie Snippet

‘A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife’s murderer.’ – IMDb

Genre

Mystery, Thriller, Revenge

Director

Christopher Nolan

Stars

Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Ratings

IMDb: 8.4/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 93% / 94% | Metacritic: 80 / 8.9

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

Put it in a simple word, ‘WATCH IT NOW’ if you haven’t.

#3 Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)

Movie Snippet

‘When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories.’ – IMDb

Genre

Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama

Director

Michel Gondry

Stars

Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo

Ratings

IMDb: 8.3/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 92% / 94% | Metacritic: 89 / 8.9

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

Put it in a simple word, ‘WATCH IT NOW’ if you haven’t.

#4 Being john Malkovich (1994)

Movie Snippet

‘A puppeteer takes up a job to support his family. While working late one night, he finds a portal that leads directly to the head of the Hollywood actor John Malkovich.’

Genre

Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

Director

Spike Jonze

Stars

John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and ofcourse John Malkovich

Ratings

IMDb: 7.7/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 94% / 87% | Metacritic: 90 / 8.8

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

‘Fabulously funny and delightfully disturbed, “Being John Malkovich” is the ultimate voyeur movie, a dark and at times malevolent take on what it’s like to be in someone else’s skull, looking out. The beauty of the film is the way it elevates John Malkovich from an actor to an axiom.’ – Rotten Tomatoes

#5 Fight Club (1999)

Movie Snippet

‘Unhappy with his capitalistic lifestyle, a white-collared insomniac forms an underground fight club with Tyler, a careless soap salesman. Soon, their venture spirals down into something sinister.’ – IMDb

Genre

Drama, Action, Dark Comedy

Director

David Fincher

Stars

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

Ratings

IMDb: 8.8/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 79% / 96% | Metacritic: 66 / 9.0

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“Watch it atleast twice.
Believe me if you want to feel this movie to the core watch it twice . It took me twice to analyze that this movie was something much more than just awesome Brilliant acting by Brad Pitt maybe his best one, direction above par . There is something much more in this movie than meets the eye .. Watch it and find for yourself” – IMDb user review

#6 Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Movie Snippet

‘In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.’ – IMDb

Genre

Drama, Fantasy, War

Director

Guillermo del Toro

Stars

Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López

Ratings

IMDb: 8.2/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 95% / 91% | Metacritic: 98 / 8.7

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“”Pan’s Labyrinth” is one of the greatest of all fantasy films, even though it is anchored so firmly in the reality of war. On first viewing, it is challenging to comprehend a movie that on the one hand provides fauns and fairies, and on the other hand creates an inhuman sadist in the uniform of Franco’s fascists.” – Roger Ebert

#7 The Shinning (1980)

Movie Snippet

‘A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.’ – IMDb

Genre

Drama, Horror

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Stars

Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

Ratings

IMDb: 8.4/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 85% / 93% | Metacritic: 66 / 8.8

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“The Shining has remained a cultural influence over these years because of the beauty of its cinematography, the calibre of its cast and the enduring mystery it generates. It tells a horror story, yes, but The Shining is also about the strength of humanity, about fear and abuse, about who the real monster is.” – Outtake

#8 The usual suspects (1995)

Movie Snippet

‘A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.’ – IMDb

Genre

Crime, Mystery, Drama

Director

Bryan Singer

Stars

Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benecio Del Toro, Gabriel Byrne

Ratings

IMDb: 8.5/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 88% / 96% | Metacritic: 77 / 8.8

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“Expertly shot and edited, The Usual Suspects gives the audience a simple plot and then piles on layers of deceit, twists, and violence before pulling out the rug from underneath.” – Rotten Tomatoes

#9 Get Out (2017)

Movie Snippet

‘Chris, an African-American man, decides to visit his Caucasian girlfriend’s parents during a weekend getaway. Although they seem normal at first, he is not prepared to experience the horrors ahead.’ – Google

Genre

Mystery, Horror, Thriller

Director

Jordan Peele

Stars

Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford

Ratings

IMDb: 7.7/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 98% / 86% | Metacritic: 85 / 7.5

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“Get Out is perhaps the best terror tale since the mid-2000s served up The Descent and Pan’s Labyrinth, two masterworks that, like this one, have much more on tap than just creeping out audiences.” – Rotten Tomatoes

#10 12 Monkeys (1995)

Movie Snippet

‘In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.’ – IMDb

Genre

Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director

Terry Gilliam

Stars

Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt

Ratings

IMDb: 8.0/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 89% / 88% | Metacritic: 74 / 8.7

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“The plot’s a bit of a jumble, but excellent performances and mind-blowing plot twists make 12 Monkeys a kooky, effective experience.” – Rotten Tomatoes

#11 The sixth sense (1999)

Movie Snippet

‘A frightened, withdrawn Philadelphia boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.’ – IMDb

Genre

Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Director

M. Night Shyamalan

Stars

Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

Ratings

IMDb: 8.1/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 86% / 90% | Metacritic: 64 / 8.8

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“You leave slightly asquirm. You know it will linger. It becomes a clammy, chilly movie building toward a revelation that you cannot predict. As I say: I cannot tell you. You’d hate me if I did. I can only say, don’t look now, but look sometime.” – Stephen Hunter, Rotten Tomatoes

“It takes you on an intriguing, unsettling journey.” – Rotten Tomatoes

#12 Shutter Island (2010)

Movie Snippet

‘Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.’ – Google

Genre

Mystery, Thriller

Director

Martin Scorsese

Stars

Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo

Ratings

IMDb: 8.2/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 68% / 77% | Metacritic: 64 / 8.4

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“A twisted psychological thriller that leaves you guessing until the very end, Shutter Island is yet another fantastic collaboration between DiCaprio (giving another pitch-perfect and near heartbreaking performance) and director Martin Scorsese.” – Candice Frederick, Rotten Tomatoes

“A relentlessly chilling mystery and a white-knuckle thriller.” – Mike Massie, Rotten Tomatoes

#13 The prestige (2006)

Movie Snippet

‘After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.’ – IMDb

Genre

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director

Christopher Nolan

Stars

Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson

Ratings

IMDb: 8.5/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 76% / 92% | Metacritic: 66 / 8.9

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“Some may struggle with its story-within-a-story-within-a- story and non-linear structure, but the payoff is well worth the head-scratching.” – James Croot, Stuff.co.nz

“Yes, the film is built on deceptions, and yes, it features a series of interconnected twists, but like all good movies and magic tricks, it doesn’t lose any glory in a repeated performance or viewing, only gains it.” – Daniel Carlson, Pajiba

#14 Donnie Darko (2001)

Movie Snippet

‘Donnie Darko, an awkward teenager, befriends Frank, a figure in a bunny costume only he can see, who informs Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds.’ – Google

Genre

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director

Richard Kelly

Stars

Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell

Ratings

IMDb: 8/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 87% / 80% | Metacritic: 71 / 7.9

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“Kelly is a supple and courageous storyteller, boldly free-associating as he mixes parody and satire with earnest psychodrama and coming up with plot points no one could anticipate.” – Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

“A wondrous, moodily self-involved piece of work that employs X-Files magic realism to galvanize what might have been a routine tale of suburban teen angst.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice

#15 The Thing (1982)

Movie Snippet

‘A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.’ – IMDb

Genre

Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director

John Carpenter

Stars

Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David

Ratings

IMDb: 8.1 | Rotten Tomatoes: 82% / 92% | Metacritic: 57 / 8.8

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“The Thing is a peerless masterpiece of relentless suspense, retina-wrecking visual excess and outright, nihilistic terror.” – Adam Smith, Empire Magazine

“It’s what all horror connoisseurs crave; a mysterious and evocative beginning, a steady burgeoning of tension, and enough left unexplained leveled with the right amount of terror shown. It is a masterpiece of filmmaking.” – Kristy Strouse, Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying

#16 Parasite (2019)

Movie Snippet

‘The struggling Kim family sees an opportunity when the son starts working for the wealthy Park family. Soon, all of them find a way to work within the same household and start living a parasitic life.’ – IMDb

Genre

Thriller, Drama, Comedy

Director

Bong Joon Ho

Stars

Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho

Ratings

IMDb: 8.6 | Rotten Tomatoes: 98% / 90% | Metacritic: 96 / 8.9

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“A tragicomic masterclass that will get under your skin and eat away at your cinematic soul.” – Mark Kermode, Observer (UK)

“Parasite finds a way to be visually stunning, thematically resonant, horrifyingly tragic and fantastically gripping while fooling the audience into thinking they are having the time of their life.” – Catherine Springer, CathsFilmForum.com

#17 The matrix (2019)

Movie Snippet

‘When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.’ – IMDb

Genre

Action, Sci-Fi

Director

Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

Stars

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Ratings

IMDb: 8.7 | Rotten Tomatoes: 88% / 85% | Metacritic: 73 / 9.0

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“A wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination, The Matrix combines traditional science-fiction premises with spanking new visual technology in a way that almost defies description.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“The Matrix is the coolest — a journey into a genuinely original vision of our cyberfuture that will have you checking your own reality by the time it’s over.” – Susan Stark, Detroit News

#18 Se7en (1995)

Movie Snippet

‘Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.’ – IMDb

Genre

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director

David Fincher

Stars

Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey

Ratings

IMDb: 8.6 | Rotten Tomatoes: 82% / 95% | Metacritic: 65 / 8.9

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“An intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching thriller.” – Todd McCarthy, Variety

“Dark, gripping thriller which saves its most shocking revelations for the final scenes.” – Mark Salisbury, Empire Magazine

#19 Gone Girl (2014)

Movie Snippet

‘With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent.’ – IMDb

Genre

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director

David Fincher

Stars

Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

Ratings

IMDb: 8.1 | Rotten Tomatoes: 87% / 87% | Metacritic: 79 / 8.2

Why it is a mindfuck movie?

“Mesmerizing performances, tense atmosphere, unexpected plot twists and turns of events, this movie is a real crime thriller!” – Serge E, Rotten Tomatoes Super Reviewer

“The film was one shocking surprise after another. A dark, entertaining, runaway bullet train.” – Sarah Knight Adamson, Sarah’s Backstage Pass

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Spice Plants and Trees

PWB — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 05:03:24 +0000

Ever wondered where our regular spices come from? How are they grown? How those spice plants and trees look like? Here a quick image walk through that shall give you all answers. Also few YouTube videos are linked, fi you want you can learn more or even grow on your personal garden or even on a flower pot.

Cardamom plant

Cardamom is a very well known spice, and commonly used in both sweet and savory dishes. Mainly two types of cardamom is available, true or green (pale to light green) and black (or deep brown). Cardamom plant is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the ginger family, native to Indian subcontinent and Indonesia. You can learn more from this links; wikiHow, Wikipedia and another Wikipedia page. There’s also a Youtube video below the image.

Image source: Pixabay

Cinnamon tree

Cinnamon is well loved spice around the world. Very commonly used in sweet dishes and dessert in the western country, but it is also a common stable in savory dishes around the Asian world. It is also variedly used as flavouring ingredients in coffee, tea, many drink as well as alcohols. The spice is obtained from the inner bark of the cinnamon tree. Some type of cinnamon trees grow very big with wide trunk, rest are think tall trees. You can learn more from this Wikipedia page.

Image Source: Wikimedia Common, Pixabay

Clove tree

Image Source: Growing Hermione’s Garden, Pixabay

Black pepper plant

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Chili plant

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Garlic plant

Image Source: Pixabay, The Spruce

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Zinger plant

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Turmeric plant

Image Source: Pixabay, The Spruce

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Mustard plant

Image Source: Pixabay

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Bizarre animals (birds, fishes, insects included) – Part 01

PWB — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 13:30:23 +0000

Our world is full of beautiful things whether it is nature or man-made structure. But most beautiful as well as some very wired and bizarre example we can find in the huge animal species. According to scientists, thers are 8.7 million animal species on earth. In this series of article ‘Bizarre Animals’ I will try to list down some of those species which are not very usual looking, and very very bizarre.

Photo #1

Star-nosed mole

Image source & a bit more interesting info

Photo #2

Leafy sea dragon

Image Source: Joseph C Boone (wikimedia commons)

Photo #3

Red-lipped Batfish

Image Source: The Verge

Photo #4

Australian peacock spider

Image Source: Wikipedia

Photo #5

Axolotl

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Photo #6

Alligator gar

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Photo #7

Glaucus atlanticus

Image Source; wikimedia

Photo #8

Warty frogfish

Image Source: wikipedia

Photo #9

Okapi

Image Source: wikipedia

Photo #10

Proboscis monkey

Image Source: wikipedia

Photo #11

Babirusa

Image Source: cokesmithphototravel.com

Photo #12

Jabiru Stork

Image Source: wikimediacommons

Photo #13

The Gerenuk

Image Source: wikimediacommons

Photo #14

Glass frog

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Photo #15

The Panda Ant is a wingless wasp, scientific name Euspinolia militaris

Image and info: wikipedia

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Architecture cleverly embraces nature

PWB — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:08:31 +0000

Who doesn’t love nature? Because of our city-bound lifestyle, we are being far removed from the nature, from natural greeneries. But here a few example of clever architecture and development that made the nature a part of it’s own.

Photo #1

Vertical garden on a side of a building in Madrid, Spain.

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons

Photo #2

One Central park, Sydney

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons

Photo #3

Designed by designed by Luciano Pia, this apartment building in Turin, Italy, holds around 150 trees

Image Source: Reddit

Photo #4

An 18th century cottage built with red brick in Hertfordshire, Southern England

Photo #5

325 years old pine tree passing through building: Saruhanbey Science, Culture And Education Foundation in Turkey

When Turkish authorities said the 325-year-old pine tree could not be cut down to make way for the Foundation, architects found a clever way to make it part of the building. Read more about is here

Photo #6

The cafe has a fruit-laden jackfruit tree, Vietnam

Photo #7

A beautiful wooden house built around trees

Photo #8

Bethany Tree House designed by Alessandro Sartore

Image Source: onekindesign.com

Photo #9

A beautiful modern house around tree

Photo #10

A beautiful modern house around tree

Photo #11

A beautiful modern house around tree

Photo #12

A beautiful modern house around tree

Photo #13

A beautiful modern house around tree

Photo #14

Carport in Paraguay, Designed by NDE Renda

Image Source: houzz.com

Photo #15

Tokyo kindergarten designed by Tezuka Architects

Image Source: dezeen.com

Photo #16

A beautiful modern house around tree

Photo #17

Living tree enclosed in a glass case,KOOK restaurant & pizzeria in Rome. Designed by Noses Architects

Image Source: Hommie

Photo #18

A very beautiful tree house built around tree

Image Source: unsplash.com

Photo #19

A tree house

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Photo #20

Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial in Sichuan, China, built and designed by Atelier Li Xinggang

Image Source: world-architects.com

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Why Eggplant is called Eggplant?

PWB — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 04:03:22 +0000

Many have wondered why this purple and/or green vegetable widely available in many Asian countries is called Eggplant. A simple question boggled many young minds, why eggplant is called eggplant? Something seems isn’t right? But yes, it is known named eggplant for reasons. View the web story below to know.

Why Eggplant is called Eggplant

A bit more facts about Eggplant / Aubergine / Brinjal

in 2018, China and India combined produced 87% of world’s total brinjal.
Other than egg-like round shape and long ones, brinjal comes in in the shape of green bellpepper and small cherry.
Aubergine is full of nutrients
Brinjal is used as vegetable, but it is fruit by botanical definition. Technically it is a berry.
Commonly believed that, Brinjal originated in India.

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