If you've ever felt embarrassed by your parents, then spare a thought for this lot.

The tragic youngsters are seen with cigarettes dangling from their mouths, guzzling bottles of beer, taped to furniture and left dangling from coat hooks, proving that sometimes mum and dad really don't know best.

In another shot a young boy is handed a potentially lethal axe while a smiling girl is given a wash, oblivious to the fact she's been shoved into the toilet bowl.

One truly despicable dad is seen parading his little boy in a Nazi T-shirt while others parents clearly have no concern for their children's safety leaving them in the most precarious positions.

The collection of shots has been taken from the blog My Parent Is An Idiot.

Life's a drag: A toddler is seen with a cigarette dangling from her mouth

No gym or Photoshop abilities. (Link)

Women try to dodge water as they celebrate the Songkran water festival, or Thai New Year, in Bangkok

Meet the most famous freak In Arkhangelsk. Andrey Khristoforov, most known as Drevarkh Prosvetlyonny (Enlightened) realized at the age of 40 that he’s … a tree… His auctions in protection of forests are louder than any others.

He goes nude to any state institutions, climbs New Year’s trees, drives along the city by a Drevarkh car with a flasher on his head and leaves a sticker with an image of a tree on doors of all organizatons he sees. He also likes to change his names.

The Tocci twins, Giacomo and Giovanni.

Photo: Dr. Jan Bonderson

We sometimes say that two people are so close that they appear ‘joined at the hip’ – metaphorically speaking, of course. But imagine this were a reality. (Indeed, think about how the phrase might have arisen.) What if you came from an egg that started to separate into identical twins but got stuck (or, as the alternative theory has it, were one of two embryos that became fused together) attaching you to your double for a lifetime? As we shall see in these seven cases from the late 19th and early 20th century, nature’s whim can join twins in the strangest of places – from the breastbone to the buttocks – making life difficult, to say the least. Given the state of medical knowledge at the time, surgical separation would have been out of the question in many cases, even if no organs were shared. Here are some of history’s most famous conjoined twins.

Odd Couple

Same old story. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy sees girl on TV straddling mechanical bull with a man old enough to be her father. Sorry, boy. .

Courtship. Dating. Marriage. Some people still do that stuff! But today, many of them start online. And as you can tell from this infographic… the Internet changes everything!