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YouTube filmmaker HammyTV’s friend Lisa Basler is pretty ill. In fact, she’s got a stage IV/metastatic angiosarcoma cancer. It’s a cancer of the inner lining of blood vessels which can occur in almost any area of the body. Most commonly, though? It occurs in the skin, liver, spleen, breast and deep tissue. Lisa is not in the best of shape to put it mildly. But she’s the living embodiment of positivity… She invites Hammy over to help her sell carnations in town. She works in a nursery and they said they’d be happy to match the pair’s sales to donate to Lisa’s treatment. So they…
Casey Lessard considers himself to be a pretty normal guy. He’s a firefighter who loves his job, family and friends. He certainly doesn’t view himself a hero, but that’s not half the world is saying now. You see, Casey recently did something extraordinary in the line of duty. But Casey still shrugs off the praise. So what happened? Well, Casey’s gone viral with good reason. Pictures have emerged from a car crash which saw him tend to a young boy who had been thrown out of the window and was lying in the road. He was hurt and panicking. On…
This is Kiah. She’s the newest recruit to Poughkeepsie Police Department. The New York mutt is flying through her training and ‘graduates’ as a police dog this week. And there’s no one prouder of her than her handler, who always knew she could make the grade. She’s not the biggest pit bull terrier but she is the first to ever make it into the ranks of the NYPD and has so much boundless energy and enthusiasm, that it looks like she set to make for an excellent police dog! Kiah came from an Animal Farm Foundation program that rescues dogs from unscrupulous…
A volunteer firefighter, Patrick Hardison, severely burned and disfigured in a terrible housefire, has gone through the world’s most extensive face transplant yet. Hardison’s face was severely burned back in 2001 after he entered a building on fire to look for a woman who was missing when the roof collapsed. The woman turned out not to even be the house. Hardison’s face was so badly burnt, he pretty much lost his entire face. But, after years of struggle, doctors have given him a face transplant which might well have kickstarted his life. The procedure was a success, but the face still needs time to settle. The face…
‘Thongsri’ is a seventeen year-old elephant who lives in a sanctuary in Chiang Mai in Thailand. She’s become very attached to her caretaker at the nature and rehabilitation center and will do anything to look after or protect him. It’s actually quite a natural trait amongst elephants as she’ll think than her carer is one of her herd. It seems strange to see the little test that the volunteers at Chiang Mai set up to demonstrate Thongsri’s loyalty and protective nature. A pretend attack is staged, with a colleague play-fighting with the man and pushing him to the ground. The elephant’s…
The little clip we’ve got for you here is, on the surface, a little upsetting. And there’s no getting around the fact that it’s sad. But, we think you can find some real beauty in it. We see a little bird pining for its partner, that’s just died. The bird’s distressed. But it’s proof that even animals can love. And do so with real strength. Parakeets mate for life. You buy and keep them in twos. So when one of them passes away, it’s quite hard for the other bird. They establish extremely close bonds with other birds and mourn…
We all know that sex can be a lot of fun. Some sex has even been proven to have health benefits (did you know that oral sex is good for you, for instance?). But there’s a darker side to it too. Sexually-transmitted infections and diseases we all know about. From the relatively common and not-too-worrying like chlamydia, to the dangerous and scary like syphilis. But did you know that there’s an STD out there that can make you up to 32 times more likely to develop cancer…? Human papillomavirus is the most common viral infection of the human reproductive tract.…
YouTube beauty expert Tracy Kiss has stumbled across a brilliant, natural and free skin care routine. In a video to her fans, the London-born vlogger reveals the advantages to performing a ‘daily semen facial’ and urges viewers to try it for themselves. Tracy has her sperm dropped off every day by a friend in old plastic Chinese takeaway pots, but anyone wanting to follow suit is encouraged to be as creative as possible with application. “I think people are concerned with the thought of putting semen on their face but actually it’s a very natural and healthy thing to do,” says…
The humble tape measure. We all have one. Those little plastic handfuls of wound-up metal tape, used for measuring. They come in handy sometimes, don’t mostly for – yep, you guessed it – finding out distance. But did you know that every tape measure has some in-built little features that are specifically designed to make the job easier for you? Leah from See Jane Drill is here to talk you through four awesome little life hacks, all based on the use of tape measure. You never knew how wrong you’ve been using them all these years! We were certainly surprised…
About one in every four children in the United States is bullied regularly. It’s stunning to think that a quarter of our young people are having their lives ruined by the negative actions of others. And when you consider the levels of stress, depression and suicides in youngsters that can be tied in with this worrying epidemic, it brings the issue of bullying even sharper into focus. The situation needs addressing. And fast. YouTube filmmaker and social experiment extraordinaire DennisCeeTV has devised a test for random members of the public to see how likely people are to step in and…