At first, I was excited beyond belief, because this gif shows you how to do THE IMPOSSIBLE. Then I remembered—oh, yeah: RIP landlines. If only I had seen this gif two decades ago…

One that is still useful, in case you ever find yourself in an apocalypse and have to raid grocery stores but can’t find a can opener: how to open a can without a can opener.

REMINDER: music is subjective, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be analyzed with a small degree of objectivity.  art36

User art36 compiled a thorough, crowd-sourced, data-driven answer to the biased “best of” lists of music critics everywhere.

The final product, based on over 3,000 Reddit comments, is a list of redditors’ favorite albums from 1965 to 2015, with separate lists for r/music’s favorite albums, r/indieheads’s favorite albums, and 4chan’s favorite albums, as well as some head-to-head analysis and THE FINAL compiled top 50 list.

We were a little surprised the 1987 pick wasn’t Whenever You Need Somebody by Rick Astley. See the album that did make #1 for 1987 here!

This vertiginous gif shows two skyscraper-scaling adventurers doing the ultimate trust exercise. Guess that’s what we get for looking at gifs on r/dontlookdown.

If that one didn’t terrify you beyond belief, you can climb even higher with this gif that will put your own selfies to shame.

The perverted side of me thought all this was kinky as hell, so I really didn’t think on it too much until this morning.  DaySee

DaySee just wanted to shake things up in bed. He never thought he would end up using the most unusual method ever to diagnose his partner with a serious disease.

And I would only swim here and sleep here.

There is an Australian shrub known as the “suicide plant” that’s sting can last years and is so agonizing that people have been known to kill themselves after touching it.  F***ImInMy30s

And in case you need even more reasons to visit Australia, here’s what one redditor encountered while trying to read the energy meter.

See the difference here.

Tons of fascinating AMAs took place all across Reddit this last week. Here are just a few you may have missed:

• Patrick Stewart of Yorkshire, X-Men, Star Trek, and Blunt Talk
• OccupyTheBookstore/texts.com, talking about the college textbook industry
• “I found out my wife cheated on me when my “son” came out black. I’m white, and she is too.”
• Chemists who are developing solar batteries for the power grid, answering your science-y questions
• Guy who grew up in the Quiverfull movement, talking about life in Christian fundamentalism and how he left
• Bullet for My Valentine, talking all things music
• “I have a journal of a man who lived from 1829-1903. Ask me any date to look up and I’ll give a tldr.”

This cat had an equally hilarious reaction to a certain frozen delicacy. And if you want to get your cat to go away, turns out another kind of dairy product is surprisingly effective. Though it may also break them…?

What if UFOs were actually humans from the future just watching us as part of some kind of tourist thingie because that would be the safest way to time travel without causing some kind of butterfly effect thing.  ArtNoize

And this high idea is brilliant, in a cruel yet hilarious way.

This enterprising boot-maker (cobbler? cordwainer?) blew our minds with this hand-made “bootorial.” In other DIY news, user FocalCamera created an open-source modular camera system you can make now make yourself, and user smashcuts built a fully-functional computer control panel with 100 programmable buttons and switches. It’s pretty dang awesome.