Het is december. Weer een heel jaar heeft Spotify jouw data getraceerd, verzameld en met stijgende verbazing geanalyseerd. Je hoopte misschien op een cultureel geëngageerd lijstje met oude klassiekers en obscure, underground nummers maar tevergeefs, je luistergedrag is wanstaltelijk! Dit is jouw Spotify Judged 2025.
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We all know how it feels to have high hopes that we’re about to pull off something big and then be crushed when things don’t end up turning out. Here’s an example of one such disappointment that will hit you right in the gut: This man cut open his grandfather’s scrotum hoping to find treasure, but all he found was testicles.
Oof. Talk about a letdown.
When 21-year-old smoke shop clerk Justin Wilson dreams, he dreams big. After noticing one day that his grandfather’s scrotum appeared to be filled with something, Justin couldn’t stop imagining that his gramps’ hefty satchel was loaded with valuable gold coins, pearls, or even a Fabergé egg. He’d lie awake at night imagining snipping into his granddad’s leathery sack with scissors, holding a bucket beneath the incision, and watching diamonds and wads of cash spill out and fill it to the brim. But sadly, it didn’t quite end up working out like that.
Upon making a careful cut in the bottom of his grandpa’s scrotum with a scalpel, Justin was disappointed to find that the first thing to pour out wasn’t rubies and sapphires as he’d imagined, but blood. Shaking the split open nutsack around didn’t improve things for Justin treasure-wise, either. All he was able to shake loose was a plump pair of 83-year-old testicles and not a single fleck of gold dust or even a quarter. Justin continued to explore the inside of his grandpa’s scrotum in stubborn disbelief until he finally was able to accept that the treasure he was so certain was going to be inside was nowhere to be found.
Brutal. This is one heart-crushing experience that Justin won’t be recovering from anytime soon.
People have a right to dream about finding priceless treasure inside their grandpas’ scrotums, but it’s important to temper those hopes with the reality that all they might find is a big ol’ set of nuts. Let’s pray that Justin can recover from this and gets back on the treasure hunting horse soon!
If you’ve watched a Kansas City Chiefs game over the past two years, you’ve seen Taylor Swift supporting Travis Kelce live at the game. But for every time an NFL broadcast has cut to Swift cheering for her fiance, they’ve also shown the pop star in much darker moments. Here are five times an NFL game has cut to Taylor Swift having a terrible salvia trip at a Chief’s game.
Yup, at the very first Chiefs game Taylor Swift attended after she and Travis Kelce began dating, the NFL broadcast camera cut to Taylor’s box seat immediately after her new boyfriend scored a touchdown, capturing her exhaling bong smoke and sinking into her chair as fireworks shot off around Arrowhead Stadium to celebrate the Chiefs scoring. Throughout the duration of the shot, Taylor’s eyes were wide open and tinged with anxiety, staring into space as everyone around her in the VIP suite applauded and high-fived. The camera cut back to the field after about eight seconds of Taylor swaying in her seat with her jaw hanging slack in a catatonic stupor, just as she lowered herself to the box seat floor and curled up in the fetal position. The broadcast cut back to Swift again the next quarter when the salvia’s effects had worn off, and she was right back on her feet, smiling, clapping, and blowing kisses to her boyfriend down on the sidelines.
Taylor was once again spotted having a bad salvia trip later that same season at the Chiefs’ Christmas day game. Sporting a cute Santa hat, a pipe, and a psychedelic Alex Grey-themed torch lighter, Taylor was frequently caught on camera reacting to the Chiefs’ ugly loss to their division rivals. At one point, as the Raiders were kneeling out the game’s final two minutes to secure their victory, the broadcast showed Taylor holding herself up on a high-top table, pointing at Brittany Mahomes with a half-limp arm and muttering what lip readers online later decoded as, “W-w-where are you? Where? W-who is now?” Swift’s parents, also in attendance, tried to guide their disassociating daughter to a seat as the pop star began waving at an empty corner of the room, mumbling, “He’s here. Where I am. He’s…he’s now. He’s right now, where I am…” An hour after the Chiefs’ stunning loss, NFL cameras showed Swift smiling and waving to fans as she and Travis left Arrowhead hand-in-hand and headed home to host a Christmas dinner for their families.
Taylor must have been put off by the overwhelming paranoia, dread, and hallucinations she experienced on salvia at previous Chiefs games, because it was over a year before cameras showed her having another bad salvia trip live on an NFL broadcast. Unfortunately, this time she couldn’t have picked a worse game to dabble in salvia at, as her boyfriend’s team found themselves blown out in front of the entire world. Late in the third quarter, when the Chiefs were down 0-34, Taylor and the Haim sisters were shown sipping from a large plastic water bottle in which a teabag of salvia was soaking, and it was all downhill there. NFL cameras checked back on Taylor’s VIP suite minutes later, after the salvia had kicked in, and the four women were completely detached from reality: Taylor paced the box seat, holding her face and mumbling to no one in particular, “What did I do? Did he do it? Is he now? Is he now, like me?” while all three Haim sisters laid supine on the floor, having intermittent bouts of nervous laughter and hysterical weeping. Thankfully, it did not take the pop stars long to recover: Paparazzi photos from the day after showed Taylor and the Haims toasting mimosas at one of New Orleans’ premiere brunch restaurants.
Dit hebben we allemaal weleens gehad. Je loopt door de supermarkt, niets aan de hand, helemaal het heertje, en ineens vraag je je af: fuk, heb ik mijn telefoon portemonnee aansteker pistool wel bij me. Ik zou zweren dat ik 'm gepakt had, maar ja, waar is-ie dan? Jaszakken, nee, broekzakken, nee, achterzakken, nee - ho, gevonden! In m'n sok. Warrig mannetje ben ik toch ook, het wordt steeds erger. Haha!
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Maak Europese regels voor kleine voertuigen zoals e-steps. Die oproep doet demissionair minister Robert Tieman (Infrastructuur en Waterstaat) donderdag in een overleg met EU-ministers. Zijn verklaring wordt gesteund door vijftien andere landen waaronder Duitsland, Polen en België.
Op dit moment bepalen landen zelf nog hoe ze met de voertuigen omgaan. Dat leidt tot een "lappendeken van inconsistente regels", vindt Tieman. Volgens de BBB'er levert een aparte aanpak per land onnodig werk op voor zowel overheden als voor bedrijven.
Tieman pleit voor een "typegoedkeuring-achtig systeem" op Europees niveau. Bij zo'n systeem moet een autoriteit een voertuig goedkeuren voordat het de weg op mag. In Nederland gaat verkeersdienst RDW over zulke controles. Omdat het nu om een oproep gaat, is nog niet duidelijk hoe eventuele Europese regels eruit zouden zien.
