According to a new survey, 60% of bosses say they usually DON'T believe their employees when they call in sick.

 

 

The main reason for not believing an employee is that they don't SOUND sick enough.  The number two reason is nice weather outside . . . number three is the person seemed totally fine the day before.

 

 

One in three bosses say they now check social media to see if the employee is dumb enough to post something that proves they were lying about being sick.

 

 

The average person says they've faked four sick days.

 

 

(Daily Mail) 

 

 

A new survey asked bosses to name the DUMBEST excuse they'd ever heard from an employee trying to get out of work.  And if THESE are the lies people tell, they really need to learn to lie better.  Here's the top 10:

 

 

#10.)  "I dyed my hair the wrong color."

 

#9.)  "My dog is scared and I don't want to leave him."

 

#8.)  "I drank too much and fell asleep on someone's floor, but I don't know where I am."

 

#7.)  "I'm taking a bath and my toe is caught in the faucet."

 

#6.)  "My pants split on the way to work."

 

#5.)  "The dog ate my shoes."

 

#4.)  "I hurt myself during sex."

 

#3.)  "I'm stuck in the house because the door is broken."

 

#2.)  "My girlfriend bit me in a 'sensitive' place."

 

#1.)  "My mom just died" . . . from an employee who'd used that excuse once before.

 

 

(Daily Mail)

 

 

 

According to a survey of Facebook accounts, here's the age that people are most likely to post about the following topics: 

 

 

1.  Men and women are most likely to post about the WEATHER on Facebook in their 60s.

 

 

2.  People in their 60s are also most likely to talk about POLITICS on Facebook.

 

 

3.  Women are most likely to post about BOOKS at age 22 . . . men are most likely to at 50.

 

 

4.  Men talk about FITNESS and working out at age 45 . . . women at 34. 

 

 

5.  Men post about their HEALTH at 54 . . . women at 43. 

 

 

6.  Men post about TECHNOLOGY at 34 . . . women at 22.

 

 

7.  Men are most likely to post about SPORTS when they're teenagers.  Women at age 48.

 

 

8.  And men and women post about FASHION at age 16.

 

 

(Daily Mail)

 

 

According to a new survey, one out of five people hide money from their spouse. 

 

 

Women are slightly more likely to have a secret stash.  22% of women have hidden money, compared to 20% of men.  But when men do it, they hide MORE money. 

 

 

Believe it or not, for people who ARE hiding money, the average amount is $10,000.  But one in five secret stashes have more than $15,000 in it.

 

 

One in 10 people haven't told their spouse how much they make . . . and one in 30 people say that they've LIED to them about their salary.

 

 

As for WHY they do, it, people who lie about their salary are split . . . HALF lie to make their partner think they earn MORE than they really do, and the other half lie to make them think they earn LESS.

 

 

(Female First)

 

 

Here are the top 10 movies from Friday through Sunday, with estimated ticket sales, according to Hollywood.com:

1. Star Trek Into Darkness, $70.6 million.
2. Iron Man 3, $35.2 million.
3. The Great Gatsby, $23.4 million.
4. Pain & Gain, $3.1 million.
5. The Croods, $2.75 million.
6. 42, $2.73 million.
7. Oblivion, $2.2 million.
8. Mud, $2.16 million.
9. Peeples, $2.15 million.
10. The Big Wedding, $1.1 million.

 

 

 

Here are the top 10 DVD rentals for the week ending May 12, courtesy of IMDB.com:

 

1. Jack Reacher
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. The Guilt Trip
4. Django Unchained
5. This Is 40
6. Parental Guidance
7. A Haunted House
8. Life of Pi
9. The Impossible
10. Lincoln

 

 

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Today is ‘National Bike to Work Day’

 

 

It’s also ‘Endangered Species Day’

 

 

And it’s ‘National Pizza Party Day’

 

 

A new study has ranked 10 bedroom paint colors by how they affect your SLEEP and your MOOD.

 

 

The study found people with BLUE walls average the most sleep, seven hours and 52 minutes per night.  Blue isn't just calming . . . the color blue triggers special receptors in our eyes that aid our body's natural sleep rhythms.

 

 

PURPLE walls are the worst for sleep, at five hours and 56 minutes.  Purple is a STIMULATING color that makes it tougher for your brain to shut down.

 

 

Brown came in second-to-last, at six hours and five minutes of sleep . . . but that might be because people in brown bedrooms have the MOST SEX.  People in red bedrooms have the least . . . even though red is supposed to be SEXY.

 

 

Here are all 10 bedroom colors, ranked from most sleep to least sleep:  Blue, yellow, green, silver, orange, red, gold, gray, brown, and purple.

 

 

(Daily Mail) 

 

 

According to a new survey by Netflix, more than half of us would be willing to cheat on our partner . . . when it comes to our favorite TV show. 

 

 

51% of us said that we'd be willing to watch a new episode of a show WITHOUT our partner, even though we'd promised to watch it together.

 

 

One in eight people have ALREADY cheated on someone with a TV show . . . and one in 10 have been cheated ON.

 

 

The most popular place to cheat is on the house's main TV . . . and just watch the show when our partner isn't home.  But 21% would watch it while our partner was home and asleep . . . and 5% would watch it on our phone in the bathroom.

 

 

Three out of five cheaters would "spoil" scenes while watching it with our partner later on . . . but one in eight would FAKE IT and act surprised so their partner didn't know they'd cheated.

 

 

(Multivu.com)

 

 

This survey isn't at ALL scientific . . . but since there's an off chance it'll help you hook up, it's worth passing along.

 

 

A new survey tried to figure out the odds of a woman getting-it-on with you based on the BOOK she's reading . .. . .

 

 

There are two-to-one odds that a woman reading "Game of Thrones" or other fantasy and sci-fi books will have sex with you . . . but they tend to be looking for relationships.

 

 

There are also two-to-one odds a woman reading one of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" books will have sex with you . . . because they're bored with their current sex lives.

 

 

There are three-to-one odds a woman reading a book tied to a popular movie, like "The Great Gatsby" or "Silver Linings Playbook", will have sex with you.  They're also most likely to have one-night stands.

 

 

There are four-to-one odds a woman reading a book like TINA FEY'S "Bossypants" or MINDY KALING'S "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?" will have sex with you.

 

 

And finally, there are seven-to-one odds a woman reading a really GOOD book, like "Gone Girl", will have sex with you . . . because she's more interested in finishing the book.

 

 

(Portland Mercury)

 

 

The CDC just released a new report on public POOLS, and found that in 58% of the pool water they tested . . . there was FECAL CONTAMINATION.

 

 

In other words, when you jump into a pool, there's a 58% chance you're jumping into other people's feces.

 

 

All of the pools with fecal matter tested positive for E. coli.  The CDC says, quote, "Swimmers frequently contaminate pool water when they have a fecal incident in the water or when feces rinse off their bodies because they do not shower thoroughly."

 

 

2% of the pools had other types of fecal bacteria that can cause diarrhea and get you sick.  59% of pools had the bacteria that can cause rashes or ear infections.

 

 

The good news is that you can probably avoid infections unless you swallow a lot of pool water or eat without washing your hands after you swim.

 

 

We've got one more note on the cesspool of bacteria surrounding you in life.  We've heard things like this before, but a new study found that your PURSE has more bacteria in it and on it than your toilet.

 

 

(CDC / CBS 2 - New York)

 

 

According to a new study, if you tweet a company, you're almost TWICE as likely to get a response from them compared to last year.

 

 

Here are the four companies that respond to the MOST questions on Twitter: 

 

 

1.  Nike:  The Twitter account for Nike support answered 4,000 questions in three months . . . or about 80% of the questions they received.  And they get back to you in an average of two hours and 20 minutes.

 

 

2.  JetBlue Airlines:  They answered 1,400 questions.  They respond to 79% of questions . . . and take only 13 minutes to get back to you.

 

 

3.  Chase Bank:  Their support account answered 600 questions . . . or 67%.

 

 

4.  Nokia:  Their U.S. support account responded to 86% of questions . . . but that was only 500 questions.

 

 

(PR Newswire)

 

 

 

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Today is ‘National Sea Monkey Day’

 

 

According to a new survey, 77% of people say they look forward to taking road trips with their family or their significant other.  BUT . . . they also admit that road trips almost ALWAYS lead to at least a little fighting.

 

 

Here are the top seven fights people have during road trips . . .

 

 

1.  Driving skills.  That includes everything from driving too slowly or tailgating, to changing lanes too much.

 

2.  The temperature in the car.

 

3.  Directions.

 

4.  Where to eat.

 

5.  Swearing at other drivers or flipping them off.

 

6.  The volume in the car.  That includes everything from whether or not to blast the radio to the kids shouting at each other.

 

7.  Smoking.

 

 

(Your Tango)

 

 

Women live longer than men. And scientists have FINALLY figured out why.

 

 

Scientists in Japan found that men's bodies produce fewer T-cells and B-cells than women as they get older.  T-cells protect us from infections, and B-cells produce antibodies.

 

 

And it suggests that the female body is DESIGNED to last a little longer than the male body.  The male body just starts breaking down sooner and becomes more prone to diseases than the female body.

 

 

In the U.S., the current life expectancy for a man is 75.35 years.  For a woman it's 80.51 years.

 

 

(BBC / Jezebel)

 

 

According to the Ocean Conservancy, more than 560,000 volunteers helped clean over 17,000 miles of coastline around the word last year, and removed 10 million pounds of garbage.  Here are the 10 most common things they found . . .

 

 

1.  2,117,931 cigarette butts.

 

2.  1,140,222 food wrappers and containers.

 

3.  1,065,171 plastic bottles.

 

4.  1,019,902 plastic bags.

 

5.  958,893 bottle caps and lids.

 

6.  692,767 cups, plates, and eating utensils.

 

7.  611,048 straws and coffee stirrers.

 

8.  521,730 glass bottles.

 

9.  339,875 cans.

 

10.  298,332 paper bags.  

 

 

They also found 4,159 candles . . . 236 toothbrushes . . . 117 mattresses . . . and 40 lottery tickets.

 

 

(Gawker)

 

 

 

The state of Ohio is now the SWEARING CAPITAL of the United States.

 

 

A customer research firm called Marchex analyzed how often people in all 50 states cursed in recorded phone calls to businesses over the past year.

 

 

(You know when you call a company and the automated female voice says "this call may be recorded for quality assurance"?  Apparently THIS counts.)

 

 

People in Ohio were MOST LIKELY to swear.  They're followed by Maryland, New Jersey, Louisiana, and Illinois.

 

 

People in Washington state were LEAST likely to swear.  They finished just below Massachusetts, Arizona, Texas, and Virginia.

 

 

The study also found two out of every three curse words come from men . . . and people are twice as likely to swear in the morning as they are in the afternoon or evening.

 

 

(Marchex)

 

 

When it comes to celebrities and their net worth, almost nobody's got more dough than former "Seinfeld" minx JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS.

 

 

Julia has OPRAH money.  And when I say "Oprah money", I mean MORE THAN OPRAH money.

 

 

Oprah has a net worth of $2.8 billion.  But Julia is worth $3 billion.  And no, that's not from residuals from "The New Adventures of Old Christine".  (???)

 

 

Her family is LOADED . . . and they have been ever since 1851, when her great-great grandfather founded the Louis Dreyfus Group, a commodities and shipping multinational that they control to this day.

 

 

Julia is worth three times more than J.K. ROWLING . . . but get THIS . . .

 

 

She's also worth more than Tyler Perry, Diddy, Bono, Madonna, Dr. Dre, Will Smith and Ryan Seacrest COMBINED.  (Check out this chart of how much these and other celebs are worth.)

 

 

 

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Today is 'Straw Hat Day' - the day traditionally men put away there felt winter hats and pulled out their straw summer hats.

 

 

And it's 'National Chocolate Chip Day'

 

A four-day-long prostitution sting in Polk County, Florida, netted some 92 people between last Wednesday and Saturday, including would-be hookers, "johns" of all ages -- and a man on his honeymoon.

A Polk County Sheriff's report states one of those arrested was 21-year-old Mohammed Ahmed, an Illinois man who was on his honeymoon in the Sunshine State. The suspect was pinched after allegedly showing up at a hotel in response to an ad featuring an undercover detective posing as a hooker.

Ahmed had been staying at another hotel with his new wife, who actually reported her hubby missing to the cops when, unbeknownst to her, he left their hotel to allegedly answer the ad in person.

 

 

Just weeks after it was revealed Air India pilots were suspended for leaving two flight attendants at the controls, comes a report another flight was diverted when the pilot got locked out of the cockpit.

Perth Now reports an Air India flight from Delhi to Bangalore was rerouted when a pilot couldn't get back into his seat after a trip to the bathroom. With the door hopelessly jammed, a trainee pilot safely landed the plane in Bhopal, in central India.

Maintenance crews on the ground were able to get the door unstuck, the paper reports.

 

 

You know you're both mad and filthy rich when you decide to express your frustration with a car dealership by deliberately destroying your own Maserati.

However, that's exactly what happened Tuesday morning at the Qindao Auto Show, according to the China Car Times: the unidentified owner of a 480 thousand dollar Maserati Quattroporte was furious with the Furi Group, the company that serviced his 2011 supercar.

The owner claims the company repaired his car with used parts costing 400 dollars, and to demonstrate his dissatisfaction, the owner and his friends destroyed the car at the entrance of the auto show.

Even stranger, this isn't the first time this has happened at the event: in 2011, another disgruntled car owner had his Lamborghini Gallardo -- which cost somewhere between 500 to 700 grand -- smashed in protest of treatment at the hands of Lamborghini Qindao.

 

 

A man who was arrested for hiding inside a closed Kentucky grocery store Sunday is accused of throwing quite the party for himself.

WAVE-TV reports when a store manager found nearly 60 cans of Redi-Whip in the garbage, he checked the store's surveillance recording from the night before. That's when cops say the ValuMarket manager spotted a man making his way around the store smoking, drinking beer, and cooking and eating six steaks, some shrimp, and birthday cake.

The party over, the video then showed the gluttonous ne'er do-well finding new clothes and changing in the bathroom before retiring to the rafters for some sleep.

The manager called the cops, who found 30-year-old Trevor Runyon still snoozing. Firefighters extricated him from his nest, and Runyon was arrested and slapped with multiple charges.

 

The scourge known colloquially as "plumber crack" isn't only on display on the backsides of allied tradesmen, so one company has vowed to do something about it, with specially designed jeans.

PolyPants feature a higher waistband to virtually spackle that crack -- which Polyfilla, the British company behind the jeans, says is a problem experienced by 55 percent of British adults polled.

On these shores, the Duluth Trading Company markets its own solution. Its "Longtail T," which is "three inches longer" than the average tee shirt, also helps mask the problem.

 

Police in Benidorm, Spain, should have been delighted with a major marijuana bust, but it's making them sick -- literally. The newspaper El Pais reports 600 pot plants are being stored at a police station since being confiscated during a May 3 raid, and the smell is nauseating.

The police union has gotten involved, reporting that both cops and crooks being held at the station, "were suffering the consequences of these narcotic substances," including, "headaches, nausea and alterations of their mental equilibrium."

The stink from the weed is so potent, it can even be smelled on the street, according to the paper, which blames Spain's traditionally slow court system for the predicament. One of the consequences of the slow system is that drugs are stored for long periods of time before being destroyed -- which also has led to several high profile thefts of narcotic evidence, El Pais reports.

 

 

 

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Today is ‘National Dance Like a Chicken Day’ – have fun with that.

 

 

According to a new survey, four out of five women admit that they've lied to their boyfriend or husband.

 

 

And as you might expect, the lies usually have something to do with the woman's past relationships.

 

 

More than HALF of all women . . . 52% . . . have lied to their boyfriend about how many partners they've had.  38% of women lie about why they broke up with the last guy they dated.   

 

 

Two thirds of women said they lie even though they know it might end up causing more arguments in the long run.  The main reason is that they think it will make their boyfriend like them MORE.  

 

 

More than HALF of women said they'd be upset if they found out their partner lied to them . . . and only 8% said they'd forgive him.

 

 

(Female First)

 

 

According to a new survey by Purina, men and women both think dogs are better at relationships than their partner. 

 

 

31% of women said that their dog is a better listener than their husband or boyfriend, and 61% of women tell their dog their problems. 

 

 

14% of men said that their dog shows them more affection than their wife or girlfriend.  And one in four guys said they've used their dog to meet women.

 

 

In a different survey by Kibbles 'n' Bits . . . 75% of dog owners admit that they use a different voice when talking to their dog.  And 38% of them have accidentally used it when talking to another person.

 

 

(PR Newswire)

 

 

According to a new survey, the average woman spends about $380 on new clothes to take on vacation.

 

 

And the average trip costs $1,105.  Which means the new clothes women buy for a trip cost about ONE-THIRD as much as the trip itself.

 

 

33% of women say they buy new clothes every time they go on vacation.

 

 

And 21% say they buy new clothes before trips because they want to make sure their new vacation photos look different from old vacation photos.

 

 

(Daily Mail)

 

 

Doctors spend every day surrounded by DISEASE.  So they either develop superhuman immune systems . . . or sometimes they're probably sicker than the people they're trying to heal.

 

 

A new study ranked the 14 major U.S. job categories by the number of sick days the average worker takes . . . and physicians came in last.  The average doctor takes 0.24 sick days a year . . . or ONE every four years.

 

 

There are a few theories why.  One, doctors feel an obligation to their patients, which makes it really hard for them to miss work.  And two, doctors tend to live healthier lifestyles . . . and obviously they have more access to healthcare.

 

 

On the other end, service workers take the most sick days.  That includes everything from cops to barbers and waiters.

 

 

Clerical workers, like secretaries and bank tellers, take the second-most sick days.  Nurses take the third-most.

 

 

(Yahoo Finance) 

 

 

(You can see the rankings for the 14 major job categories here.)

 

 

According to a new survey of 13,000 American men, COLOMBIAN women are the most attractive women in the world.  And our South American love doesn't stop there:  Brazilian women came in second.  American women came in third.

 

 

The full top 10 goes Colombian, Brazilian, American, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, and Italian.

 

 

The survey also asked more than 30,000 American women which MEN are the most attractive.  Somehow, BRITISH men came in first.  American women only ranked American men FIFTH most attractive.

 

 

The full top 10 goes British, Irish, Brazilian, Swedish, American, Spanish, Scottish, French, Greek, and Puerto Rican.

 

 

(Miss Travel)

 

 

A new survey asked people how confrontational they get in different uncomfortable situations on a plane.  Here are the results . . .

 

 

If you're in the middle seat and the people on both sides hog the armrests, 28% would confront them.

 

 

If the person in front of you reclines their seat so far back that you can't open your laptop or put down your tray table, 55% would confront them.

 

 

If the person in front of you leaves their seat reclined for takeoff or landing, 13% would confront them.

 

 

If someone had a screaming child and WASN'T trying to get them to STOP, 8% would confront them.

 

 

And finally, if you're sitting next to someone who wants to talk the entire flight, 12% would actually talk the whole time . . . 10% would tell them to stop talking . . . and everyone else would put on headphones or pretend to sleep.

 

 

(Travel Leaders Group)

 

 

 

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