In the grainy cellphone video, a hand lifts the lid off a clear jar filled with tongue depressors and playfully swirls the light-colored wooden sticks around.
“PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH MEDICAL SUPPLIES! THANK YOU,” warns an all-caps notice posted on the wall above the container.
Moments later, another hand pops into view. It belongs to a young girl wearing a baseball cap and a turquoise tank top. She too reaches for the jar, but goes a step further, plucking one of the tongue depressors from the bunch and bringing it to her mouth.
Getting a flirty text from someone you like is the ultimate confidence boost. But sexy messages can often go south fast. (There's an entire Twitter account dedicated to shitty "romantic" texts from men.)
Which is why it's infinitely more wholesome when the result ends up being unexpectedly hilarious. For example, receiving a meme of your Photoshopped face.
Emily Baumgartner recalled her recent experience with potential flirting when her personal trainer asked for her number and to take a picture of her. Sounds interesting, right? All seemed to be going in a flirty direction until Bumgartner received the actual, uh, message.
Armed with needles and a yarn of wool, teams of avid knitters danced Thursday to the deafening sounds of drums beating and guitars slashing at the first-ever Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship in eastern Finland.
With stage names such as Woolfumes, Bunny Bandit and 9″ Needles, the participants shared a simple goal: to showcase their knitting skills while dancing to heavy metal music in the most outlandish way possible.
“It’s ridiculous but it’s so much fun,” said Heather McLaren, an engineering PhD student who traveled from Scotland for a shot at the “world title.” ″When I saw there was a combination of heavy metal and knitting, I thought ‘that’s my niche.’”