Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Happening Now

Jason Bailey

Dailey Bailey: A Woman Gets Stuck In a Wall . . . and No One Helps Her For Seven Hours Because They Think She’s a Ghost?

If you hear a woman screaming for help, and the sound seems to be coming from inside your walls, what’s your first instinct? Is it: There’s a woman trapped in the walls? Or, OH MY GOD IT’S A GHOST!

In China, apparently the answer is . . . OH MY GOD IT’S A GHOST!

Late on Saturday, a woman was walking home in Anhui, in eastern China, and tried to take a shortcut through a narrow passage between buildings. It got narrower, and she ended up getting stuck . . . so she started screaming for help.

But no one in the buildings helped her . . . because they apparently all believed they were hearing a shrieking ghost. Seriously. And she was trapped there for 7 hours.

Finally, someone walking by heard the screams, and thought they might be coming from a non-ghost human. So he called for help.

Firefighters got the woman out of the wall in about 20 minutes, and she was okay.

Here’s a video . . . in Chinese . . . that shows the firefighters chipping away at the wall to rescue the woman.

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Dailey Bailey: A Woman Stole a Kitten and Demanded Money, or “Something Bad” Would Happen to It

If you want to become Public Enemy Number One on the Internet, there’s no faster route than this.

kitten lady22-year-old Madeleine Kaye of Gainesville, Florida allegedly stole a woman’s kitten last week!! That’s bad enough . . . you do not mess with people’s pets in America.

But then she sent a bunch of texts saying she wanted $20 to return it . . . or, quote, “something bad” would happen to the kitten. Yes, she ransomed someone’s kitten.

So the woman called the cops. But when they went to Madeleine’s place, she said she hadn’t really stolen the kitten, and the texts were just a joke.

But they arrested her for extortion anyway. There’s no word on whether the kitten was found.

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Dailey Bailey: One in Four People Who Name Their Car Pick a Name That Starts With “B”?

This is really an inexplicable trend . . . but the numbers are high enough that it feels like it can’t be a coincidence.

According to a new survey, one out of every four people who name their car give it a name that starts with the letter “B.”

The five most common names for cars all start with “B”: Baby, Betsy, Bessie, Black Beauty, and Betty.

The people behind the survey didn’t speculate on why “B” names are so popular for cars, and we really don’t know either.

The survey also found about one in five people name their car . . . and women are much more likely than men to name their car.

Also, half of people think their car has a gender . . . people are twice as likely to think of their car as female than male.

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Dailey Bailey: The Top Seven Dealbreakers When You’re Dating . . . According to Every Study on Dealbreakers Combined

There’s a universal fascination with dealbreakers when you’re dating. What other subject gets researched by Harvard and “Cosmo”? And that means there have been a lot of studies on them.

So a new study looked at the results of seven different scientific studies to find the things that keep coming up. Yes, it was a study on studies.

These are the seven biggest dealbreakers across all the studies. Which is a good sign that they’re probably pretty accurate.

1. Being unattractive. Which is totally subjective and not specific at all. I guess that’s what happens when you combine too many studies.

2. Living an unhealthy lifestyle, like smoking or drinking too much.

3. Having undesirable personality traits, like being lazy or having a bad sense of humor.

4. Having different religious beliefs.

5. Not being the same social status.

6. Having different attitudes toward having kids.

7. Having different relationship goals.

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Dailey Bailey: Seven Signs You’re About to Get Fired

The only thing worse than getting fired is not seeing it coming. If you know what’s up, at least you can try to find something else first. Here’s a list of seven clues that someone is thinking of getting rid of you.

1. Your level of responsibility has gone down. If you used to get trusted with the big stuff, and now you have nothing but free time, that’s not a reward. It probably means they want to get used to doing without you.

2. The boss is avoiding you. It’s a sign of guilt. But there could be other explanations, so ask for some feedback before you do something to make it worse.

3. You’ve been disciplined recently. If it happens once, you’re usually all right as long as you shape up. But after the second time, you could be on your way out.

4. A robot can do your job. If it’s possible to automate the work you do, it’s only a matter of time before the company will automate it. It’s basically always cheaper in the long run to have a machine do the work instead of you.

5. The company doesn’t pay for your professional development. If you used to go to conferences or luncheons on company time, and now they don’t let you do it, it could mean that they don’t want to invest in you anymore.

6. Your company was just bought out. They always tell you that no one’s getting fired. Then they casually ask you to show one of their managers what you do . . . and then one of their people is taking over your job.

7. You’ve been asked to create a job description for your position. Not always, but a lot of the time this means someone is trying to decide which employees are expendable.

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Dailey Bailey: The Six Ways Men Text Women

Considering guys usually prefer texting to talking on the phone you’d think they’d have better texting skills. Here’s a list of the six different ways men text women . . . and they all suck.

1. Disappearing in the middle of a conversation. A lot of guys don’t know when a conversation is supposed to continue. You text them something funny, hoping to start some flirting or something, and you never hear back.

They probably just laughed and went on with their day . . . they’re not trying to be mean. But it’s still a failure of etiquette, since a funny text requires a response.

2. Abbreviating everything. Typing the letter “K” instead of “Okay” . . . using “TY” instead of “thank you” . . . or using “ur” instead of “you’re.” You’re not paying for text messages by the letter, so it’s okay to spell it out.

3. Being too abrupt. Like when you take out all the descriptive words and just use subjects and verbs. As in, “Movie. I’ll get tickets. 8PM. See you there.”

It’s good to be direct, but if you’re too direct it’s easy to sound passive-aggressive by accident. As in, “okay” . . . “that’s fine” . . . “if you want.”

4. Over-texting. The stereotype is that guys don’t like to talk on the phone as much. But that doesn’t mean you should stuff everything you would have said in a phone call into a single text.

5. Texting like a teenager. That means using emoticons, acronyms like LOL, and using too many exclamation points. You don’t want a girl to think you’re being cold, so you overcompensate.

6. And of course . . . sexting. Some guys seem to think there’s no use for texting except sexting. Even when they’re not sending dirty pictures, they’re always saying something dirty.

But this one depends on how much you like him . . . because it could come off as either creepy or hot.

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