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Tips to Help Avoid Being Laid Off. Number one on the list? Don’t give them a reason to do so


Eight steps to getting back on your feet when you're fired, laid off, or your business ventures has failed--and finding more job satisfaction than ever before
Eight steps to follow when you’re fired or laid off

If you’ve ever worked at a company where there’s even a hint of a threat that layoffs could be coming, you need to make sure that you’ve worked your way into a position where there is as little of a chance that your name would be written down onto The List of Those To Be Let Go as possible. 

That’s right – in order to not give them a reason to lay you off, you need to lay the groundwork ahead of time by following at least these TIPS FOR HELPING TO AVOID GETTING LAID OFF.

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Some tips for extending your cellphone battery life


Emergency Portable Cell Phone Recharger
Emergency Portable Cell Phone Recharger

It has happened to Web Watch, and we’re sure it’s happened to you:  you’re hanging out with your friends all weekend and you forget to plug your phone in to recharge, and now you’re stuck in a situation where your phone is on it’s last battery display bar and you still have 5 hours to go before you can get to your charger.

Sure, you can use a Duracell emergency recharger that you happened to have stashed in your glove box — but how many of us have bothered to pick one of these up the last time we were out running errands?

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Disney How To

Want FIGMENT and DREAMFINDER returned to the Imagination ride at Disney’s EPCOT? Here’s how


Epcot's FIGMENT
Epcot’s FIGMENT stuffed toy

Fans of Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park have a new mission: to RETURN THE FIGMENT AND DREAMFINDER CHARACTERS TO EPCOT, specifically to the Journey Into Imagination ride.

First, some history:  when Epcot first opened, the plan was for the park to not have any of the traditional Disney characters present at all.  Of course, “where are the characters?” was a common complaint from families who visited and expected to see Disney characters at any Disney theme park they visited – which, at the time consisted of just the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland…not exactly a large sample size to deal with, here.

But Epcot did have one cuddly, friendly cartoony character available – FIGMENT, the playful winged dragon of imagination — who, along with his mentor Dreamfinder, became the defacto face of Epcot when no other characters were available.

Luckily, park fans loved Figment and Dreamfinder, and together they made the original incarnation of the JOURNEY INTO IMAGINATION attraction a family must-see favorite.  Ask anyone who visited the park in those days if they could sing the “Imagination” song, and you’ll hear everyone share their version of “One Little Spark”.

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How To

Tom likes beautiful women who can’t poop. (Memo to Tom: beautiful women don’t poop, ever.)


It Hurts When I Poop

TOM HAS A FETISH ABOUT CONSTIPATION.

Specifically, a fetish about women who are constipated.  Beautiful women, that is.

Tom’s fascination with poop – or lack thereof, it appears – puts him into the same category as a klismaphiliac (a person with an enema fetish), a mysophiliac (a person with an excretion fetish), or an eproctolagniac (a person with a fart fetish).

Keeping the pipes clean is a four-step process:

  • Hydration:  more water in the colon helps keep the pipes clear
  • Mechanical: add bulky high-insoluble fiber to your diet
  • Irritation: the colon needs a little irritation, such as psyllium husks or flax seed
  • Stimulation: caffeine, nicotine, or exercise

If you’re not doing enough of each of these four items, Tom may take an unhealthy interest in you and your clogged-up bowels.

So Web Watch would like to offer this public service announcement to help our more attractive Web Watch readers avoid people like Tom and become more regular, with some of these HANDY TIPS TO RELIEVE CONSTIPATION:

  • Activia
  • Coffee
  • Cigarettes
  • Senna Tea
  • Suppositories
  • Sugar-free candy
  • a Reuben sandwich
  • Aloe juice (mixed with lemon and water)
  • 10 oz hot water and 1 lemon squeezed in
  • 1 cup Magen-darm tee (Really strong chamomile tea)
  • 3 shots of espresso
  • A tummy massage starting at the navel, in a clockwise motion up to above your pubic bone for 2 minutes
  • Touch your toes and reach up into the air and repeat for 2 minutes.
  • Eat fresh unsweetened, active culture whole milk yogurt with raw Quaker oats
  • Eliminate white flours and refined sugar
  • Increase intake of healthy oils like Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
  • Constantly eat celery before, during and after meals
  • 2 tablespoons of raw wheat bran
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10 Things Gambling How To

How to pick a winning March Madness bracket


2010 March Madness Basketball Bracket

This time last year, Web Watch shared some tips on how to pick a winning NCAA tournament bracket.

As basketball tournament madness rolls around again and everyone DOWNLOADS THE 2010 NCAA BRACKET, we thought we’d share some more tips with our Web Watch readers:

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Want people to conform to your wishes? Perhaps these ten tips will help.

The Conformist

Once in a while, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to get an entire group to conform to a single thought or rule.

Web Watch admits that getting a group of any size to conform to the group’s wishes on the whole is a lot like herding cats – there’s always going to be someone who wants to march to their own beat and do whatever they want, just because they can – regardless of whether that marching is going to help the group in whole or hinder whatever progress you’re trying to make.

Web Watch has found these TEN TIMELESS INFLUENCERS OF CONFORMITY.  Each of these ten items affects group-think, and are the things that any group leader (or group dissenter, if that’s the way you’re marching) should take into consideration if you’re trying to win friends and influence people.  Some of those items are:

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The New Fashion Trend: Bedazzling Your Hoo-Ha (aka “Vajazzle” and “Vagacial”)


Temporary Body Jewelry Tattoos
Temporary Body Jewelry Tattoos for Vajazzling

Web Watch thinks that some things are perfectly fine the way they are, but apparently some women think that some body parts are always in need of a little, well, something “extra”. 

And we’re not talking about a simple bikini wax or the more complicated and deadly Brazilian wax (yes, a Brazilian wax can kill you, remember?).

If you’re one of those women who think that their special place needs a little special something, then Web Watch would like to point you in the proper direction to get that taken care of.

First, let us introduce you to THE ART OF VAJAZZLING (eg VAJAZZLING: from the root word “vajazzle”, meaning “to bedazzle your vag”. As used in a sentence – “I can’t believe you got vajazzled!”)

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Top 15 Houseplants Every Household Should Have. (It’s SCIENCE!)

Boston Fern

If you don’t have a lot of houseplants around your home, you should.

We already know that plants are good for the environment, smell nice, and look pretty while sitting on the plant rack in the corner of your kitchen.

But now scientists have determined – scientifically, of course – which are the absolute BEST HOUSEPLANTS TO HAVE IN YOUR HOME

Why? Because plants will help clean the air in your house more efficiently and naturally than anything else you can find.  The folks at NASA even determined that you should have one plant for every 100 square feet of living space in your house.

So what are some of the 15 plants that you should run out to the store to buy right now?