17 Astoundingly Accurate Diagrams Showing What It’s Really Like To Be An Introvert.

Introverts are unique people. Many of them prefer to spend their evenings and weekends spending time with themselves at home rather than hanging out in a noisy bar or supporting their favourite football team at the stadium. Sometimes they end up with a negative reputation which they really don’t deserve.

1. YOUR SOCIAL CIRCLE

2. YOUR SOCIAL CALENDAR

 3. THE PERKS OF BEING AN INTROVERT 

4. WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOUR PHONE RING

5. SECRET DESIRE FOR A NEW PLAGUE

6. HOW FRUMPY YOU ARE

7. WHAT YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY "I'M BUSY"

8. WHEN YOU DREAM OF YOUR FUTURE, YOU IMAGINE

9. MONEY, YOU'D PAY TO NEVER HEAR THESE QUESTIONS AGAIN

10. WHAT PEOPLE THINK "INTROVERTED" MEANS

 11. SIMPLE PLEASURES FOR AN INTROVERT

12. THE BEST THINGS ABOUT PARTIES

13. WHY YOUR FACE LOOK LIKE THAT

14. HOW CLEARLY AND CONCISELY YOU CAN ARTICULATE YOUR THOUGHTS

 15. STAGES OF SOCIALIZING FOR AN INTROVERT

 16. WHY YOU ALWAYS CARRY A BOOK

 17. HOW EXCITED YOU ARE ABOUT DATING

Top 10 Supervillain Projects From Around The World

Fictional supervillain plots are just that: fictional. Except that some of the things that governments and even individuals have managed to pull off are just as outlandish as the things we’ve seen in James Bond movies. Here are 10 of these supervillain projects from around the world.

Top 10: A Secret Nuclear Smuggling Network

There are smuggling networks and black market operations which deal in exotic things like animal furs and illicit drugs, but there has probably never been a black market network quite like the one run by Abdul Qadeer Khan. It dealt in information on how to build nuclear weapons as well as the actual nuclear material and equipment to make those weapons.

While countries have peddled nuclear secrets before, Khan is the first individual to have ever built a business providing these services. However, unlike a supervillain in a Bond movie, he didn’t face a dashing MI6 agent trying to stop him. Western intelligence agencies purposely overlooked Pakistan’s nuclear program for years and missed Khan’s nuclear network as well.

Khan is considered the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program and is revered in Pakistan as a hero. While working in Europe, he stole two designs for nuclear centrifuges and brought them back to Pakistan, using these designs to advance Pakistan’s then-fledgling nuclear program.

In the early 1990s, he tried to sell the nuclear technologies Pakistan had used to make a nuclear weapon. Deals were signed with Libya, Iran, and North Korea for Khan’s networks to provide centrifuge parts, bomb material, and a complete blueprint for a compact nuclear warhead that could fit on a missile. Khan appears to have grown rich and egotistical on the profits from his sales, and Pakistani politicians were none the wiser.

The entire network started to unravel when shipments of nuclear weapons to Libya were uncovered in 2003. Further findings implicated Khan, including documents wrapped in bags from an Islamabad dry cleaning company. In 2004, Khan gave a public confession and was put under house arrest in Pakistan—a mere slap on the wrist because he was released just five years later.

Top 9: Anthrax In World War II

Dropping biological weapons over an entire nation to starve their populace sounds like something so evil that only a supervillain would advocate for it. During World War II, someone did strongly advocate for such a thing, but it wasn’t Adolf Hitler. It was Winston Churchill championing Operation Vegetarian.

The plan involved British bombers dropping anthrax-contaminated cattle feed over Nazi Germany. The German cows would eat the anthrax and die, depriving the Germans of all their livestock. Starvation would occur rapidly, with more deaths caused by the anthrax infecting humans.

To accomplish this massive undertaking, the British needed to manufacture and inject anthrax into five million linseed cakes. Then bombers would have to be modified to drop this unusual payload. However, smaller tests showed that the project was feasible.

Churchill overruled the concerns of several top scientists and ordered 500,000 anthrax-laced cakes from America in 1944, but World War II ended before the plan could be put into action. Although more tests were conducted on isolated islands as late as the 1950s, the British government favored nuclear weapons, which were far more practical. Postwar development of Operation Vegetarian was not pursued.

Top 8: The CIA Mining Operation

In 1968, the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 suffered an accident and sunk into the crushing depths of the Pacific Ocean. A major loss for the Soviet Union, this represented a golden opportunity for the CIA, which could finally get its hands on Soviet missile technology.

There was just one small problem: The submarine was about 5,000 meters (16,000 ft) underwater. The CIA responded with a massive operation that would have made any supervillain proud. In complete secrecy, they attempted to raise the entire ship from the depths in an operation called Project Azorian.

To cover up the operation, the CIA approached billionaire Howard Hughes, who agreed to help. A massive ship, the Glomar Explorer, was built and ostensibly funded by Hughes, who announced that his new ship would mine the sea floor for the valuable mineral manganese. In fact, the CIA had secretly provided Hughes with the money to build the ship, and its real purpose was to use a gigantic claw to retrieve the sunken Soviet submarine.

Constructed from 1970–1974, the ship finally arrived at the site of the sunken submarine in July 1974. For over one month, the ship attempted to raise the submarine in complete secrecy while curious Soviet ships looked on. In the end, the mission was not entirely successful, with part of the submarine breaking off and sinking back into the depths. No nuclear missiles were recovered.

Before the Americans could try again, the entire operation was exposed in a strange series of events. Paranoid about a mundane burglary which had coincidentally made off with secret Azorian documents, the CIA enlisted the help of the FBI, which attracted media attention. Eventually, someone in the government leaked the entire operation, and the Soviets sent a warship to guard the remains of their submarine. Further salvage operations were canceled. The Glomar Explorer sat gathering dust until the 1990s, when it was purchased for oil drilling. The ship has now been scrapped.

Top 7: Control Of The World Copper Market

In some Bond movies, supervillains want to control the supply of a specific commodity, with Goldfinger being a well-known example. In the mid-1980s, a Japanese trader tried to do the same thing with copper, but he didn’t need nuclear weapons to do it.

Yasuo Hamanaka, working for the Sumimoto Corporation, was once known as “Mr. Five Percent” because he controlled approximately that much of the world’s copper supply at the time. Although that doesn’t sound like a lot, copper, unlike gold, is constantly being used up. It is also difficult to move copper to where there are shortages, so prices that rise due to a copper shortage do not necessarily reverse quickly. These factors, along with Hamanaka being the biggest holder of copper at that time, gave him a huge amount of influence over the global copper market.

He used this influence to keep the price of copper high for over a decade, earning a huge amount of money in the process. He accumulated a lot of his copper in secret deals. But for years, the fluctuations in copper prices were explained away and were never linked to his influence, despite increasingly vocal complaints by other copper traders.

However, real-life business isn’t like the movies, and Hamanaka’s plans for world copper domination came to an abrupt end in 1996. Increased market regulations made his position untenable. When he tried to secretly buy up more copper, he was busted.

Everything quickly unraveled from there. Sumimoto fired Hamanaka, and he was jailed for fraud. Then Sumimoto learned they had been left with nearly $2 billion in debt as the price of copper (and all of Sumimoto’s massive copper holdings) went into free fall.

Top 6: Saddam Hussein’s Supergun

In the late 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein wanted a weapon that could strike farther than any he had in his arsenal at the time. So like a Bond villain, he turned to outsize ideas.

Saddam commissioned Canadian physicist and engineer Gerald Bull, who specialized in long-range artillery and had worked for Iraq in the past, to build a gigantic supergun called the Babylon gun. This weapon would fire artillery shells thousands of kilometers and would be able to fire satellites into orbit.

The final gun design had a barrel 150 meters (500 ft) long with a diameter of 1 meter (3 ft). It was expected to launch a 600-kilogram (1,300 lb) projectile 1,000 kilometers (600 mi) using 9 metric tons of special propellant. The recoil of the gun would have been enormous, registering on seismic sensors around the world. Iraqi defector General Hussein Kamel al-Majeed claimed that Saddam planned several missions for the gun, including launching nuclear weapons and shooting down satellites.

A smaller, 350 mm prototype of the supergun was built. But before construction on the larger gun could begin, Bull was killed by the Israelis in 1990 because he was working to improve Iraq’s more mundane ballistic missiles. The same year, Saddam invaded Kuwait and was crushed by the US. Ultimately, the supergun project was dismantled.

Top 5: Stealth Satellites

Remember in the Bond film Moonraker where supervillain Hugo Drax had a stealth space station in orbit that was invisible to the US military? The US military actually had such a program—code-named Misty—to secretly deploy stealth satellites into space to spy on enemies. These satellites couldn’t be seen through telescopes or tracked with radar.

The first satellite was launched by a space shuttle in 1990. But just a few days later, the satellite apparently exploded. Believing that this was an ordinary spy satellite, both Russian and American space experts thought that was the end. In fact, the explosion had been faked, and the satellite had deployed a stealth shield to hide itself while the experts were distracted by the explosion.

Less than a year later, however, the satellite was spotted briefly by amateur astronomers while it was maneuvering in space. As late as five years later, other sightings were reported, again by amateurs. The military learned a lesson. When the next Misty satellite was launched in 1999, it contained a decoy that threw off the civilian astronomers for a while.

However, at a cost of nearly $10 billion, these spy satellites weren’t useful enough in real life to justify the massive expense. The project was canceled in 2007.

Top 4: X-Ray Lasers Powered By Nuclear Explosions

During the Cold War, the US government pursued a superweapon under the aegis of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. Called Project Excalibur, it was supposed to use X-ray lasers powered by nuclear weapons to destroy Soviet ballistic missiles. The project was proposed by Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, who believed that a series of these weapons could secure the US against a missile attack by the Soviets.

The weapon consisted of a nuclear weapon with a modified casing containing hundreds of solid lasing mediums. The explosion of the nuclear weapon would dump energy into the mediums, which would be excited and produce intense beams of X-rays, frying a huge number of Soviet missiles with every atomic detonation.

The Outer Space Treaty prohibited nuclear weapons in space, so the X-ray laser devices needed to be stored on the ground. X-rays are also absorbed by the atmosphere after just a short distance, which meant that the devices had to be deployed on rockets in Western nations closer to the Soviet Union, such as Britain.

Ten tests were conducted to see if nuclear explosions could be used to generate X-rays. Although there was some success in later tests, the end of the Cold War also heralded the end of the program. It was canceled in 1992.

Top 3: An International Villain Organization For Hire

The Bond movie Thunderball introduced SPECTRE, a crime syndicate and terrorist organization for hire that was led by an evil genius. While the real-life Paladin Group didn’t steal nuclear weapons or hold Britain for ransom, they were a mercenary organization founded by the nearly mythical ex-Nazi soldier Otto Skorzeny, who must have been an evil genius to pull off as many feats as he did.

Formed by the scar-faced Skorzeny in the 1960s, the Paladin Group was envisioned as a global organization of mercenaries, who were neither military troops nor civilian spies. The organization specialized in training and equipping unsavory characters. In the geopolitical upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s, there were many dictatorships and failing governments around the world that wanted mercenaries and killers, demands that the Paladin Group was prepared to service.

Unlike SPECTRE, the Paladin Group wasn’t immortal. With the deaths of both Skorzeny and his patron, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, the group appears to have faded into history.

Top 2: The Balloon Bomb To Destroy Soviet Harvests

The US once had a weapon, the E77 balloon bomb, that could potentially wipe out crops and livestock worldwide using biological agents. Inspired by Japanese balloon attacks on the US during World War II, the Americans combined a harmless leaflet-dropping balloon with a 40-kilogram (80 lb) payload of stem rust disease, which would destroy wheat harvests.

The stem rust was coated on turkey feathers, which would be released when the balloon had risen and then dropped to a predetermined height. Almost 5,000 of these weapons were ordered in 1950, enough to destroy more than 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 mi2) of cropland.

Designed to secretly destroy Soviet or Chinese agriculture, the balloons were tested over a decade and ready to deploy. However, the program was suspended in 1960. Bombs dropped by aircraft had become the favored delivery method of stem rust. As far as we know, all research into biological warfare ended in the US in 1969.

Top 1: The US Government Is Purposely Spreading Malware

In 2012, leaked documents from Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency wasn’t just passively tapping phone lines and Internet connections. The NSA has been systematically infecting tens of thousands of computers with malware since 2010, with hopes to eventually infect millions of computers. This malware steals information and opens up computer networks to outside influence.

An automated system called TURBINE is spreading the implants and has allowed the NSA to expand their ambitions from just a few hundred priority targets to potentially millions of computer systems. In internal documents, the NSA claims that the system would operate like a human brain, automatically deciding what it would use to retrieve information from compromised computers.

The system is also user-friendly. A human overseer can ask a computer about an application it’s running without being overwhelmed with coding minutiae. The entire villainous operation could put the safety of the Internet at risk, as holes in security created by the TURBINE malware make further intrusions by other organizations and individuals more likely to succeed.

The Most Outstanding Animal Attractions In The World

Nearly every major city around the world is home to a zoo of some kind. But like people, not all zoos are created equal and there are definitely some zoos that are better than others. Thanks to animal rights activists and the evolution of human compassion, zoos are now better than ever. Animals used to spend their zoo lives in cages in the earliest of societies all the way to the late twentieth century. Today, zoos look like natural habitats of the animals, making them more comfortable and acting more natural in front of their human audiences. Zoos are also taking very active roles in wildlife conservation and making the world a better place for animals. You will also find that numerous zoos are taking active roles in helping repopulate endangered species.

On this list are some of the most outstanding zoos in the world. Whether they are trying to preserve wildlife through confinements emulating the animal’s natural habitat, or promoting education about animals to the younger generations, thus raising a new crowd of researchers and biologists. Of course, there will always be protestors against the concept of zoos, claiming that they torture their animals and force them to live unnatural lives. Unfortunately, there have been a few bad egg zoos that have ruined it for the other more respectable establishments. This means that if you want to visit your local zoo, then you’ll need to be proactive in researching and finding out the standards and principles the park establishes.

For example, the world famous San Diego Zoo opened in 1915 and is famous for its lush gardens and 99 acres of land that houses over 3,700 animals. The zoo gained fame after obtaining one of the first pandas from China in the United States. The San Diego Zoo also allows people to watch the animals from webcams, making the animal kingdom more accessible via the web.

The number one zoo in the United States (according to Trip Advisor and rave reviews on the web) is the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska. The zoo features some of the largest habitats in the world including the largest desert, largest glazed geodesic dome, the largest cat complex, nocturnal exhibit, indoor forest, and largest swamp. To put it simply, the animals probably feel most at home at this zoo, which features over 962 different species over 130 acres. The zoo opened in 1894 and has been thriving ever since.

There are many more outstanding zoos where this came from. Make sure to watch the entire video for the full comprehensive list. If one of the zoos on this list interests you, consider not only paying a visit, but also making a contribution to the zoo so that they can continue their conservation and research efforts. There is nothing more heartbreaking than a zoo closing, or worse, being forced to deny shelter or treatment to an animal in need. Despite controversy, the zoos on this list are making some good in the animal kingdom and saving species everyday.

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10 Most Controversial James Bond Facts.

James Bond is a worldwide phenomenon—an icon to young and old, male and female. It seems that the character and his antics never go out of style. However, over the years, James Bond and the actors who play him have made as many waves outside of the movies as inside of them.

Facts 10: Roger Moore And The Race Debate

Roger Moore charmed countless fans as the third actor to officially play James Bond, transitioning from Sean Connery’s 1960s spy adventures into a swinging ’70s miasma of Bond weirdness, including the polarizing film Moonraker. Much more recently, though, Moore polarized fans again when he opined that Idris Elba should not play the superspy.

As Elba’s popularity has grown, many fans have speculated how bold and different it would be if he replaced Daniel Craig as the next James Bond, marking the first time the spy would be played by a black actor. In an interview with Paris Match, Moore allegedly responded to this suggestion by saying that Bond should be portrayed as someone “English-English.”

Of course, Elba is English, so many interpreted the odd phrase “English-English” to be a dog whistle for Moore claiming that Bond should only be played by a white man. While some fans defended Moore and his statement as being about nationality and not race, the interview also has him placing this “English-English” preference over the Scottish, Welsh, and Irish actors who have portrayed Bond.

Therefore, the interview has Moore insulting either all black actors or nearly all Bond actors, including the iconic Sean Connery. Of course, whether either implication is as offensive as the mere existence of Moonraker is a matter of taste.

Facts 9: Daniel Craig And The Bad Role Model

 
Generations of fans have looked up to the character of James Bond. He is a model of male sophistication in manners, style, and romance with each comely woman sharing his latest adventure. However, there is one solid authority on why James Bond is a terrible person: Bond actor Daniel Craig.

In a candid interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Craig used his famous “mince no words” personality to point out that people view Bond as a lady-killer and somehow overlook that he is a terrible misogynist. Craig also points out that the appearance of chivalry on Bond’s part is often more a result of the writers surrounding the single-minded agent with women who can put him in his place.

When the interviewer lobbed a softball question at Craig by asking what people can learn from the character of Bond, the actor remained equally candid and said, “Nothing.” Then he pointed out that these movies are about a simple, direct killer and are not the “life-changing experience” of male fantasy that some fans make them out to be.

Facts 8: Is James Bond Bisexual?

The James Bond film Skyfall was a refreshing return to form for the series, featuring amazing action and an absolutely captivating villain, Javier Bardem’s Silva. However, the most memorable scene for many people was Silva’s interrogation of Bond. Silva taunts the hero by implying that he may have sex with Bond and that this is the first time Bond has been the subject of male affection. Bond’s potentially monocle-popping reply: “What makes you think this is my first time?”

Depending on how viewers read this scene, there are some interesting implications. One is that veteran lady-killer James Bond may be bisexual. Interestingly enough, the cast and writer did not make the issue clearer when pressed on the matter. Screenwriter John Logan responded that the main point was to have Silva make Bond feel uncomfortable in a new way by making explicit the usually implicit homoerotic undertones of villain/hero exchanges.

Bond star Daniel Craig demurred when asked, simply saying that he does not think of the world “in sexual divisions.” Bardem commented that viewers intrigued about the possible homosexuality of the villain “could read it that way” and that he felt the director wanted the question of whether Silva was joking left unanswered. However, with no outright denials of Bond bisexuality holding them back, fan fiction writers found themselves both shaken and stirred by the new possibilities.

Facts 7: A Tale Of Two Bonds

In the 1980s, Sean Connery returned to the role of James Bond in the film Never Say Never Again. However, this movie is never included in Bond film compilations or broadcast in Bond movie marathons because it’s not actually a Bond film. At least not officially.

The plot goes back to the James Bond novel Thunderball. Author Ian Fleming collaborated on the film version of Thunderball with producer Kevin McClory. The original movie never happened, so Fleming transformed the plot into one of his James Bond novels. However, the author failed to credit McClory for the plot, resulting in a lawsuit.

McClory won two big prizes from his successful lawsuit. First, he received production credit for the eventual Thunderball movie starring Sean Connery. Second, McClory received the right to create his own film version of Thunderball after at least 10 years had passed.

McClory executed this right, even luring Connery back to create an intriguing new Bond entry that lies outside the official James Bond canon. The film also gave us a more down-to-earth counterpart to the increasingly flamboyant Roger Moore and his official Bond films.
 

 Facts 6: The Bond Girl Who Was A Boy

A key component of a James Bond film is that women find him irresistible, with a kind of cultural cachet forming around the starlet who becomes the latest “Bond Girl.” However, in 1981, a Bond girl was revealed to have once been a boy, both shaking and stirring international controversy.

In For Your Eyes Only starring Roger Moore, model and actress Caroline “Tula” Cossey played one of the extras in a pool scene. Born Barry Kenneth Cossey, she had enjoyed great success after transitioning to a female. She was a commercial actress and glamorous model, with credits from Vogue to Playboy. It seemed like appearing in a legendary James Bond movie would be the stepping-stone to an even larger media career.

Unfortunately, the high-profile movie also brought high-profile controversy. The UK tabloid News of the World sought to destroy her with an article entitled “James Bond’s Girl Was a Boy.” This revelation shocked both her personal fans and Bond fans, with the public backlash causing her to consider suicide. Fortunately, she did not take her life and was able to return to modeling, but the huge controversy prevented her from having a larger film career.
 

Facts 5: Daniel Craig Would Rather Die

For many male actors and perhaps almost all men, the idea of playing James Bond seems like a dream come true. The films can launch their stars to international fame while making these actors filthy rich. However, Daniel Craig shocked the world when he revealed that those opportunities weren’t enough for him to play Bond again.

When asked if he would return for another Bond movie after SPECTRE, Craig told Time Out magazine that he would rather slash his wrists than return. “All I want to do is move on,” he said.

Craig was even less talkative about who should be the next James Bond when he said, “Look, I don’t give a f—k.” Topping off the bluntness in his interview, Craig revealed that he would only return for the money rather than any energy or passion he has for the role.
 

Facts 4: James Bond Jr.?

James Bond has been a multimedia franchise for decades. Simple books about a spy became big-budget films, which in turn begot more novels, video games, comics, and so on. However, there’s one form of James Bond media that his fans mostly attempted to forget—the 1991 James Bond Jr. cartoon.

Despite the title, the 65 episodes of this cartoon did not feature the son of James Bond but instead focused on the insane high school adventures of his nephew. Even if we ignore the fact that Bond is an orphan and probably wouldn’t have a nephew, there are many reasons why the cartoon series is the most controversial Bond of all.

The cartoon borrowed and twisted adult elements of the Bond films. For example, Bond Jr. teamed up with I.Q., the grandson of Q, and flirted with Goldie Finger, the daughter of Goldfinger. Bond Jr. also fought actual Bond villains, such as Oddjob and Dr. No.

In the strangest twist of all, Dr. No—a normal-looking male human in the movie sharing his name—instead looks like a green alien with pointed ears and a Fu Manchu mustache in the cartoon. There is no shortage of reasons why Bond fans label this cartoon as “For No Eyes Only.”
 

Facts 3:  From Cold War To Capitalist Icon

Nowadays, most people view James Bond as a globetrotting British hero—nothing more, nothing less. However, Bond was created as Cold War propaganda. Specifically, Ian Fleming’s original novels portrayed a British superman adept at destroying communists wherever he encountered them.

Interestingly, these Cold War connotations were toned down as soon as Bond landed on the silver screen. Although the literary Bond struggled against the Soviet intelligence agency SMERSH, the films replaced that with the international cabal known as SPECTRE.

According to early Bond critics, the films’ emphasis on nifty gadgets in place of low-tech spywork played its own role in Cold War culture. John le Carre—a writer and former spy—dubbed the reliance on these gadgets as a tawdry way to impart “a kind of magic” on our otherwise “drab and materialistic” lives.

Of course, by flaunting the ability of the economically booming West to deploy such technology against its enemies, even the cinematic James Bond served to smash debt-ridden communist countries in the eyes of the public, although with ejector seats in his Aston Martins instead of his fists.

Facts 2: Bond Swaps The Martini For A Heineken

The famous phrase “shaken, not stirred” cemented James Bond as a drinker—specifically as a consumer of meticulously made martinis. That’s why many Bond fans felt shocked and betrayed when Bond swapped his favorite martini for a Heineken beer.

Heineken has actually sponsored a number of Bond films over the years, including most of Pierce Brosnan’s Bond films and all of Daniel Craig’s. However, Skyfall marked the first time that Bond consumed the brand on-screen. In addition, Craig began starring in Heineken ads as James Bond.

Some people felt that this was a bridge too far for product placement, adjusting the plot of the movie to support a sponsor rather than the typical method of allowing the sponsor’s product to sit quietly in the background of a scene. The motivation for having Bond consume the beer on-screen is clear: Heineken wants viewers to think they are the best because James Bond will settle for nothing less.

Not everyone saw it that way. By making James Bond a less formal character, some people believe that this product placement was a cheap attempt to appease a casual audience into thinking that their consumerism brings them closer to the superspy—all at the expense of 50 years of cinematic, martini-filled history.
 

Facts 1: The Most Popular Psychopath?

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of James Bond is the world’s never-ending fascination with a cold-blooded murderer. Matt Damon, who famously portrayed the spy Jason Bourne, described Bond as “an imperialist, misogynist sociopath who goes around bedding women and swilling martinis and killing people. He’s repulsive.”

Of course, it’s easy to write off Bond’s excesses as part of the medium he inhabits. After all, is he really that much worse than your average action hero?

As always, it depends on how you define things, but Bond ticks off several items on the literal psychopath checklist devised by Dr. Robert Hare of the University of British Columbia. These traits include a “cunning and manipulative nature, pathological dishonesty, lack of remorse, [and] promiscuous sexual behavior.”

According to a study published in New Science in 2008, Bond exemplifies a psychopath because “he’s clearly disagreeable, extrovert and likes trying new things—including killing people.”

Of course, Bond is not your run-of-the-mill psycho. He’s more of a socialized psychopath, someone who is actually malevolent but appears mostly normal to friends and colleagues.

Arguably, this subtext came to the surface in the Skyfall movie, which portrayed Javier Bardem’s villainous Silva as a kind of evil Bond twin. Silva was the unsocialized psychopath but one who still had the presence of mind to criticize Bond for his “pathological rejection of authority based on unresolved childhood issues,” another possible symptom for a psychopathic diagnosis.

Ultimately, Bond’s mental state is less fascinating than this simple fact: He is the most celebrated serial killer–hero in books and film. By using charm, women, and one-liners, Bond disguises the fact that he would be the hated villain in any movies but his own.

Wow! Amazing Beach House Of Taylor Swift’s.

Nice beachfront location and classic style make this home a winner – good pick Taylor! One thing is for sure, Taylor Swift can make great music, and with her latest record becoming the best selling album of 2014, it’s no wonder she is able to afford such a great crib! Please let us come over sometime Taylor! Checkout the next 10 pictures of Taylor Swift’s amazing home, you will be impressed with her outstanding house!

Of course what would be the point of buying oceanfront property if it didn’t have a spectacular view!? Just imagine waking up to this every morning…sounds perfect to me!

Nice circular driveway with an anchor! Actually if you look closely at this picture, you will realize it is a picture of another one of Taylor’s beautiful homes – she actually has several great places to live! Keep reading for some more amazing pics of this great singers home!

 The green grass and hedges perfecly compliment the snow white exterior siding and brick. It’s like your own private paradise on the ocean.

The high vegitation surrounding the property adds some privacy even though the house is on a large hill. Just look at that green lawn!

If you are ever on this beach it would be cool to see Taylor Swift’s home in person! Great location and very nice views!

Nothing like enjoying a morning bagel outside on this beautiful patio surrounded by nature!

Very nice outside seating area in the courtyard – even a nice place to warm up by the fireplace – very inviting! Can we come over Taylor?

The interior is just as nice as the exterior. But who would expect any less from someone as awesome as Taylor Swift?!

Very modest but clean design make this home a winner inside and out!

I wish my dining room looked as well set as this one!

Grand circular staircase and nice hardwood floors make this place shine – nice home Taylor!

It looks like she hired a nice decorator. The bright colors in this room really add to the ocean view experience! 

Very nice views from the inside of this amazing home.

Life can’t be too hard when you get to sit in the shade and watch the sailboats!

Very nice close-up view of the front of one of Taylors amazing homes! 

Ah how the red of the Ferrari compliments the white of the house!