The internet has, since its inception, harboured enough dark corners for every weird little idea to hide itself. And amongst all the banal and useless nonsense out there there are still some genuinely bizarre manifestations of individual oddities. Most recently there are many sites which are based on user contributions – photos, video clips or comments along a stipulated theme. These all too often get taken over by people whose contributions are less than good, who can’t spell or write English with any nod to grammar, whose sense of humour can, at best, be described as ‘lowest common denominator’. The site which has the excellent idea of putting things on your cat and then taking pictures of them has been hijacked by people the calibre of whom can be deducted from the following comment on this picture: “LOL!!!!! Oh man, that’s funny! At first I thought that the head and paws were on the box, but then I realised there was a cat in there! This is an awesome pic! : )”

However, there is one site I found recently which truly satisfied my most sordid internet requirements. Crying, while eating not only raises the obvious issue of our oh-so-unhealthy modern relationship with food, it also contains some genuinely uncomfortable clips. It has the odd silly piece depicting people who look like their crying wouldn’t be convincing if someone poked their eye in the school playground, but mainly, even when it is obvious they are acting, the clips are genuinely entertaining. The accompanying explanation of why they are crying really makes the site. Visit if you feel like feeling dirty.

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