‘Cause I gotta have cake.

What are the most absurd things you ever told to your children? We were talking two years ago about the Things I’ve Said to My Children series by American illustrator Nathan Ripperger, who decided to note the strangest and most absurd phrases he told to his children, to turn them into funny and offbeat illustrations. Nathan Ripperger has just released the book Things I’ve Said to My Children, including 80 illustrations from the series. If you missed the first part: A creative dad illustrates the strangest things he has told to his children. And you, what are you saying to your children?

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To create a scale model of the solar system, its planets and their orbits, Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet decided to use as a starting point a simple marble to represent the Earth. Which led them to create a gigantic time-lapse of 10 km in diameter, in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, with in its center a Sun measuring 1.5 meter and with Neptune orbiting 5.6 km away! A very interesting experiment to better understand the real size of the solar system.

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What creature suits your features?

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

“I already won the lottery. I was born in the U-S-of-A baby!”

When he was the epitome of tolerance:

NBC

When he needed to work on his short-term memory:

When he made this astute observation about international politics:

NBC

When he *tried* to wink:

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Reddit’s ultimate subreddit has a fascinating thread right now about users’ controversial opinions about ultimate.

Here is a representative list of top-level comments (some have been lightly edited) — there’s a lot more in the way of discussion at the link. What’s your take on the below? What’s your controversial opinion about ultimate?

1. The occasional out-of-bounds pull isn’t a big deal; it’s better to put the offense in a bad position 80% of the time and brick the other 20% than it is to give off a free first throw.

2. Swearing shouldn’t be a Team Misconduct Foul (TMF) unless directed negatively at anyone.

3. There’s too little of a penalty for fouling on the mark. I also think TMFs and PMFs should be used WAY more. I want people who take advantage of the rules thrown out.

4. I remember studying the rules of a few sports in junior high school and having no problems scoring 100% on every written exam for them, despite having no interest in any of those sports at the time. I’ve played ultimate on and off ever since then, and regularly for at least six years now and I still find the official rules utterly incomprehensible. The verbosity, the jargon, the omission of summary or baseline scenarios to give you a mental framework for the game or the goals of a set of rules before diving into edge cases and specifics, it all drives me insane. If I ever have to consult the official rules, I anticipate no less than 10 minutes of pure frustration.

5. Four team tournaments that take one day and three games are played should be the norm. All weekend events should be special occasions.

6. Passing a rigorous rules knowledge test should be required to participate in the college or club series.

7. There should be a two point line.

8. The game would be much better if we just had refs already. You can have spirit of the game with refs.

9. The Innova Pulsar is a pretty good disc

10. Ultimate will be better off it never becomes a NCAA sport.

11. I like boring play. I like handlers who can throw a disc well enough that there’s no need to layout or sky three defenders to make the catch. I like 50 throw zone offense points that run a cup ragged and score with a three yard pass. I like defenders who are such a presence that their man never gets the disc. My ultimate would never make it on Sports Center.

12. This sport will not be taken seriously by those outside the community within our lifetimes.

13. I would like to experiment with a penalty box. For a lot of fouls it seems like the penalty isn’t that bad, I think some sort of penalty box where the team plays down a man for 30 seconds or a minute would make players less likely to foul. You’d probably need refs or observers for this to work.

I’m not saying this would necessarily be a good rule change, but I think it would be interesting if one of the pro leagues ran with a penalty box for a season, to see how it affects the game.

14. I hate spirit circles or whatever they’re called. Why do I have to stand in a circle with the players of both teams after the match? We all know how the game went and it makes us looks like a bunch of tools in my opinion.

15. I don’t care about the “culture” of ultimate. I play because it’s fun, not because it’s “underground” or has some unique take on sportsmanship.

16. There should be no “spirit of the game” mantra. There should be good sportsmanship, as there should be in any game, and if you don’t have that, you’re a shitty person, but you’re as much an ultimate player as anyone else.

17. Competitive (read club/semi-pro/pro) should be single gender only. Mixed gender should be reserved for pickup and city league.

18. Gloves should not be allowed under any circumstances. I think it’s just ridiculous.

19. Flip the rugby script: No backwards passes allowed.

19. Ultimate should never become an Olympic sport.

20. The sideline in-out rules should be similar to basketball or cricket. None of this ‘you can toe it in, then run out the field as far as you like stuff’. If you’re touching the disc, you should have to stay fully in bounds. If your momentum is taking you out of bounds, you should be forced to offload the disc quickly or risk a turnover.

21. Ultimate consists primarily of over-privileged white people who merely went to mid-tier private liberal arts colleges.

22. [Mixed] should be played 8v8 with 4 men and 4 women to promote equality.

23. Semi-pro ultimate should be mixed-gender only.

24. The sport would be better if played 6v6 on normal sized fields, rather than 7v7 or 7v7 with pro league fields.

25. Play shouldn’t stop for an injured defensive player until there is a turnover unless the injury was caused directly by the offense or it is extremely serious.

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Do you have anything in common with these TV sociopaths?

The World Flying Disc Federation was granted full recognition by the International Olympic Committee today at the IOC meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“WFDF is extremely honored and humbled by the decision and support shown by the IOC Session for our sport today,” said WFDF President Robert “Nob Rauch in a statement. “We are very thankful to the IOC membership, the Executive Board and its administration, in particular to the IOC Sport Department and staff, for their guidance and support during the period since WFDF was provisionally recognized by the IOC Executive Board in May 2013.”

Back in 2013, the IOC gave temporary recognition to WFDF but asked them to improve in a number of areas prior to receiving full recognition two years later.

“Since 2013, we have successfully implemented most of the recommendations made by the IOC promulgating best practices for a sport [international federation,” said Rauch. “We have established Continental Associations on all continents, increased number of WFDF national member associations to 62 and the number of associations recognized by the National Olympic Committees to 11, focused on the development of organized activity in Africa, modified the WFDF governance structures to increase the influence of athletes in the decision-making process, and further supported the global growth of Flying Disc sport.”

This move from the IOC was expected, but it is still a vital step towards ultimate’s future Olympic hopes.

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One dedicated YouTuber edited enough quotes from movies to put together all the lyrics to “Uptown Funk.” It’s too hot. Hot damn.

This is Bruno Mars in the "Uptown Funk" music video.

You know how the song goes, don't you?

Sony Music Entertainment

These guys are not Bruno Mars.

In fact, they're Terry Gilliam from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Emilio Estevez from The Mighty Ducks. But they're still singing "Uptown Funk."

Via youtu.be

Dedicated YouTuber dondrapersayswhat used movie clips like those to recreate the entire song, and it's kind of amazing.

The creator says it took three months to make, and the video contains clips from 280 movies.

youtube.com

That's impressive.

DreamWorks Pictures

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Les Twins on London Beyonce Tour

You might know your spirit animal, but this is more important.

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Here are the #1 plays from each week of the AUDL regular season:

AUDL Top 15 Plays | Regular Season 2015

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“I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.” –Kanye West

Take the quiz, and then REMEMBER WHO YOU AREEEE.

This is as crazy a play as you will ever see in ultimate, from Toronto GOAT’s Remi Ojo against Pittsburgh Temper:

Remi Ojo Layout Catch Block | 2015 US Open

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How would you wield the delicious power of food?

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The now classic The Disney Princesses reimagined as… series continues to play with the famous Disney princesses in every possible ways, from the Disney princesses in Game Of Thrones to the very twisted Disney Princesses reimagined as piles of rocks. Here is a funny and quirky series entitled Clever girl by illustrator Laura Cooper, who is having fun with the box office by transporting them to Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, transforming the Disney Princesses into velociraptors… Why not!

Images © Laura Cooper

“I got my heart’s desire…and there my troubles began.”

Jarry Lee / BuzzFeed / Penguin Random House

The Magician's Land — the third book in the Magicians trilogy (which will soon be a television show on Syfy) — is now in bookstores.

Or maybe you’re Divergent?

It’s hard to believe!

Awful Frisbee Throwers

Via LiveLeak.

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everyone loves ultimate frisbee though

Who would you be in the Mushroom Kingdom?

A great comic strip from the New York Times’ Brian McFadden in today’s Sunday paper:

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Redneck Avengers: Tulsa Nights just might be the best show that never was.

These Bad Lip Reading videos just keep getting better and better.

Bad Lip Reading / Via youtube.com

Who knew Bruce Banner (aka The Hulk) was such a show-off?

Bad Lip Reading / Via youtube.com

Calm down, Thor.

Bad Lip Reading / Via youtube.com

Black Widow does whatever she wants.

Bad Lip Reading / Via youtube.com

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Cat Lady Dance, the WTF music video of the day, featuring two dancers surrounded by a gaggle of fake cats, with as background a rain of Oreo, robot dance and edgy music. A video directed by Scott Winn.