The National Aquarium of New Zealand lets people know which of their penguins have been behaving badly with a handy naughty and good chart. While it seems cute and fun, some of the things the naughty penguins do would land a person in jail.
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They say that that nothing can be certain except death and taxes, but it seems like there's always something trashy going on somewhere. You can trust that someone will be acting selfishly, be it stealing dinner plates for no reason, or leaving a futon on the highway. Trashy moments are a regrettable fact of life.
Most people are on a general course of self improvement, trying to be more kind, sympathetic, and generally productive. Then there's also folks who just choose to make things harder for other people, and do trashy things that belong in a landfill. Extreme trashiness can come from every level of society.
Just about everyone has some small act that they think only they perform. These acts might be born out of boredom, like making up songs about butts to sing to your dog. They might come from convenience, like using your extremely dextrous feet to pick stuff up. Or they might come from necessity, like tapping your fingers to the tune of "Sweet Child Of Mine" every time you see a picture of your Dad for some reason. Behaviors like these tend to make people think they're not normal, even though everyone does crap like this. Here's some stories of people realizing their roommates were actually crazy.
While reading these, think hard about yourself and if you do any of these things. Like even if you think you were justified the last time you were late paying someone back. If you don't do any of this crap, then congratulations, you're free to judge the living shit out of everyone who partakes in these dick moves. If you do this stuff constantly, then it's possible that you're a trashy bastard, so watch out because someone might get petty revenge on you for your annoying ways.
Every school had a few of those kids that would do absolutely anything to get people's attention. Sometimes it was making up insane lies, other times it was pulling their lunchmeat out at a birthday party or drinking during a test. Either way it often led to some kind of school scandal. What ever happened to those kids, anyway?
Via Science Daily
Humankind is capable of great accomplishments, such as sending probes into space and eradicating diseases; these achievements have been made possible because humans learn from their elders and enrich this knowledge over generations. It was previously thought that this cumulative aspect of culture — whereby small changes build up, are transmitted, used and enriched by others — was limited to humans, but it has now been observed in another primate, the baboon.
While it is clear that monkeys like chimpanzees learn many things from their peers, each individual seems to start learning from scratch. In contrast, humans use techniques that evolve and improve from one generation to the next, and also differ from one population to another. The origin of cumulative culture in humans has therefore remained a mystery to scientists, who are trying to identify the necessary conditions for this cultural accumulation.
