On Tuesday, The Ellen Showpaid tribute to Prince by airing a musical appearance he made on the first season of the show. The song, "Nothing Compares 2 U," was written by Prince, but made famous by Sinéad O'Connor when she released it on her second album. Unsurprisingly, Prince is also very, very good at performing the song. Here's the appearance, in all its purple glory:
This will have to do until more performances and recordings are unearthed for everyone's listening pleasure.
Beyoncé dropped her "visual album" Lemonade over the weekend, and the world's still rocking like a Super Bowl halftime show that didn't invite Coldplay. Iggy Azalea, who probably didn't need any additional bad press after getting cheated on publicly by Nick Young (or just publicly dating Nick Young in general, who affectionately nicknamed himself Swaggy P), tweeted about how the slang "Becky" makes her feel.
Apparently, all that happened was someone called her Becky and she asked them to not do that.
Here's her damage control after several sites reported that she was calling Beyoncé racist. She quotes this tweet:
And says:
"Becky" references a Beyoncé lyric that many are interpreting as a reference to the woman Jay Z cheated on Beyoncé with. Queen Bey sings, "He better call Becky with the good hair." Whether that's Rita Ora, Rachel Roy, Rachel Ray, or one of a million Beckys this writer took tennis lessons alongside, it doesn't matter to Azalea.
And if you now understand that "Becky" is sometimes slang for white woman, you're now ready to learn its other meaning, according to Azalea.
And that's that. Plus, Azalea needs you to know she is human, and she loves Beyoncé like everyone else.
Still, you may never find out why a woman with the name Iggy doesn't jump at the opportunity to change it to Becky.
April 27 is Administrative Professionals Day, a yearly holiday celebrating those unsung heroes who schedule appointments, make copies, and basically do 80% of the work for their overpaid bosses. It used to be known as Secretaries Day, but now, even saying that makes people on the Internet angry at you. That's just one of this holiday's weird quirks. Here are the funniest things people on Twitter had to say about it:
Kate Hudson is the spawn of showbiz legend Goldie Hawn. While Hawn hasn't made a Hollywood movie in over a decade, she has been making her own strange videos on Instagram, like this Golf Dance:
And this random gravy commercial:
And don't forget her masterpiece, the puppy workout.
Jimmy Kimmel asked Hudson to try and explain if there is any method behind Hawn's madness, and she was embarrassed as any daughter put to that task would be.
Be thankful that neither you nor your mom are famous enough to warrant an explanation.
Meanwhile in Russia, a tiny child has had an absolute meltdown because her dad "offends her," according to the translation on the video her family uploaded that's apparently gone viral in Russia. The little child is very adamant about running away to Africa because of her parents' alleged mistreatment. Once there, what will she do? Join the "starving children," of course. Or maybe she'll hit up Finland and let the bears eat her. But first, she needs some help.
That's right little girl, don't give up! Keep putting on your very purple outfit and flee—oh, she gave in, according to her dad's final note. Well, at least she already knows what she wants to wear on their family vacation to Africa.
Because little kids speaking foreign (to Americans) languages is always great material, here's another tiny child. This one, though, isn't trying to run away. She's spinning a tale with her vivid French imagination.
Such a dramatic story.
On Tuesday, actor Tom Hiddleston and Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch were guests on The Late Late Show with James Corden where they got to hang out with a couple of two-month-old clouded leopard cubs. Try not to lick your computer screen when you see the handsome actor (and the other guy) (just kidding, he's cute, too) snuggle the tiny baby kitty.
Hanna explained that the leopards are endangered (there are only about 200 or 300 left in the world, according to him) and that leopards are the only cats that spend 90 percent of their lives in trees (because they think they're birds. Stupid cats).
And then, just when you think it can't get any cuter, BOOM—penguin.
Good to see Jack Hanna is still wearing the traditional "exotic animal handler on late night talk show" uniform (as seen here on Will Ferrell).
Scotsman John Tierney has a daughter, Grace. Grace, if you ask Mr. Tierney, will never, ever be getting a boyfriend. No, John Tierney has a very different life plan for Grace. The fierce father filmed his daughter and him discussing Grace's strong desire for a boyfriend, then uploaded it to Facebook for all the world to appreciate his overprotective-ness.
Yes yes, fathers making jokes about physically harming their daughters' boyfriends is so 20th century. But did you hear this guy's accent?
In case you couldn't fully understand, here's a shortened clip with subtitles.
"Fur" has quite a different meaning in Scottish.
No matter how many RSVPs you've received, you can never really predict how many people will show up to an event that you organized, because human beings can be rather unpredictable despicable. Whether it's a birthday party, a baby shower, or even a funeral, there's always the possibility that no one will show up at all. But when no one shows, you can at least count on Internet strangers to be there for you, just like they were there for these eight people.
Earlier this March, the Internet felt this dejected Oklahoma grandpa's pain. After his one grandkid shared this photo on Twitter, folks called out his rude grandkids and retweeted the photo above over 100,000 times. To redeem themselves, those five other grandkids helped plan a massive, open cookout for their now-Internet-famous grandpa. About 1,500 people arrived from all over the country for the event.
This April, the Gerald Hamilton's grandma, Lara Hamilton, wrote a Facebook post about her grandson's friends not showing up for his birthday party. She went on to explain that her grandson invited all of his 30 classmates to his party, and 12 said they were coming. “At 3 p.m. he made sure his goodie bags were ready for his friends, he was dressed and ready to party. At 5 p.m. he was still sitting there not wanting to cut his cake because one person might show up,” Lara wrote. “This breaks my heart.”
Lara didn't expect it, but her post got over 4,000 shares. She told The Huffington Post that this translated to Gerald receiving over a thousand cards from folks all around the globe. Also, some of his classmates said they'll be sure to attend his party next year. Way to go grandma!
In February of last year, Glenn Buratti’s mom Ashlee organized a party for her son, but no one bothered to show. “I know this might be something silly to rant about, but my heart is breaking for my son. We invited his whole class over for his 6th birthday party today. Not one kid came,” Ashlee posted on a local Facebook page.
After she posted on the group’s page, fifteen random kids from their neighborhood in Osceola, Florida showed up to her son’s party, as well as community firefighters and police officers.
"I had sent out a couple of reminders a week prior and everybody was like, 'Yes, we’re still coming.' I said I'm getting the food; I just need one last head count," her mom Lauren Sassmannshausen told WKRN-TV. Those little liars!
Tallyah’s mom wrote a post on the "I heart Spring Hill" Facebook page and asked if anyone in town wanted to come celebrate. Shortly afterwards, over 70 people showed up to her daughter’s party.
Just a few days prior to Mackenzie Moretter’s birthday party, people canceled their RSVPs. Her mom, Jenny Moretter, took to Facebook to vent her concerns. After seeing the message, over 300 people attended the party, ABC News reported. Attendees included Minnesota Vikings player Charles Johnson and his family, a woman dressed as Elsa from Frozen, and hundreds of strangers who saw her mom's post.
In August of last year, Lior and Annette Solomon got hitched at a rather large event space in Israel. Only a few of their relatives showed up. Most of their guests had thought their wedding ceremony was canceled because the bride’s father recently passed away.
A relative apparently took to Facebook and wrote: "The bride lost both her parents in the last two years. Her father passed away a month ago, and now there is no one there except for a few relatives. You don't need a gift, you don't need money. Just come fill the auditorium, fulfill a mitzvah, and make a bride and groom happy."
The response was overwhelming, and they estimate that up to 2000 people showed up to the couple’s wedding ceremony.
Harold Jellicoe Percival was a British WWII Bomber Command veteran. Percival passed away at the young age of 99, and a local newspaper noted at the time that “he has no close family who can attend his funeral.”
Twitter caught wind of the newspaper’s description, which led to other local newspapers such as Percival’s neighborhood paper, The Blackpool Gazette, also asking if any service personnel in the area would be able to attend his funeral.
Hundreds of people—service personnel and local private citizens—showed up to Lytham Park Crematorium in Lancashire, England to pay their respects.
The pregnant woman's baby shower was approaching, but no one RSVP'd except for the best friend, and no one had purchased anything from the baby registry.
In July of last year, godloki wrote on Reddit:
My best friend of more than 10 years is pregnant with a baby girl and her baby shower is this weekend. I just found out that no one is planning on coming except for me. I went to her registry on Walmart today and it has 0 items purchased so far. She's obviously upset that no one RSVP'd for her baby shower and because I'm the only one attending and I was hoping Reddit would be able to help cheer her up. Her registry items range from $0.97 bottles all the way up to a $27 Nursery monitor. I know a few random acts of kindness would really make her day this Sunday.
In a follow-up post, godloki's daughter-in-law said that the baby shower was a success. Friends and family managed to attend the event, and a couple of awesome Redditors made purchases from the baby registry.
Much respect, Internet. Much respect.
To be a hulking muscle-freak worthy of smashing skulls on Game of Thronesor winning the title of World's Strongest Man, you need to have a diet that would kill most other human beings. What Hafþór "Thor" Júlíus Björnsson, also known as Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane, eats on a daily basis to prepare for competition is absolutely bonkers, as he recently shared on Facebook.
He warns the rest of us puny humans not to try this, before listing his daily food intake.
People been asking me a lot about my diet and what I eat! Here's my diet plan for my preparation for World's Strongest Man 2016! Yes this is a lot & I don't recommend YOU to try this!!
6:50 Morning workout! Cardio + CORE for 30min Bcca, Glutamine + handful of almonds
7:30 8 eggs + 200gr Oats + blueberries & strawberries + avocado
9:30 400gr Beef, 400gr Sweet potatoes, handful of spinach & greens
11:50 Bcca, glutamine,
12:00 400gr Chicken + 400gr potatoes, greens + some fruits
14:00 Blender = 150gr oats or sweet potatoes, 2 bananas 150gr kelloggs rice krispies, frozen berries, handful almonds, peanut butter and glutamine
14:30 Training strongman, Bcca, glutamine, Vitargo
17:30 60gr protein + 2 banans
18:00 500gr beef + potatoes, greens
20:30 500gr salmon + 500gr sweet potatoes
22:30 50gr casein protein or 6 eggs + avacado + 30gr almonds + 50gr peanut butter
Drink a lot of water throughout the day + Juices to get more calories!!
middle of the night 50gr casaine protein or raw eggs
It is not good to be an egg around Thor.
As BuzzFeed calculated, that's roughly 4,300 calories before noon, a caloric regiment that allows him to toss buckets in the air higher than anyone else.
To assuage your fear of The Mountain throwing a bucket at you, here he is with Asterix, his tiny little Pomeranian that is in all likelihood part of his diet.
Just Not Sports made a valid (if not-so-subtle) point when they had random men read mean tweets aloud to female sportswriters Julie DiCaro and Sarah Spain. DiCaro writes for Sports Illustrated and is an anchor for 670 The Score in Chicago. Spain is a columnist and radio host for ESPN. They're both also active on Twitter, which unfortunately means they've received a whole bunch of awful comments from awful men online. For the record, these aren't the men who wrote the tweets, as you can probably tell by how hard it is for them to get the words out.
Their message is hit-you-on-the-head clear: if you wouldn't say it to someone's face, you shouldn't type it.
The Underdahl family of Post Falls, Idaho just welcomed its first daughter since 1914. Scott and Ashton Underdahl were surprised—and tickled pink—when she gave birth to their daughter Aurelia Ann on April 12. Scott's family line has been a wiener party for over a century, as the last girl born in the family was Scott's great Aunt Bernice in almost 102 years.
"Everyone has been hoping for a girl," Scott told CDA Press,"I didn't know what an Underdahl girl looked like."
The result was worth the wait, as Aurelia happens to be really, extremely cute.
"Maybe it took more than 100 years to create perfection," Scott's dad, Conrad, said. "She's a cutie. We've been spoiling her a bit because it's just different finally holding a baby girl."
Here's hoping it won't be until 2117 when the Underdahls have their next girl.
Chances are you’re going to get fired someday. It may be because of something you did, or just downsizing. It doesn’t matter! So you might as well read these ridiculous terminations stories from redditors while you’re still on the clock.
1. Over at the dollar store, there's so much money it's just magically appearing, and Terboh had to clean up that horrible, horrible situation.
Worked as a cashier at a store were things are generally a dollar. You only get 3 chances per year to be off on your register by $2.00, positive or negative. Was on my 3rd strike in December, at this point promoted to assistant manager, found an extra $20 in my drawer when I counted it down at the end of the night. Recounted a few times, still there. Ended up recording it, rather than taking the $20 off camera. Got fired for it.
TL;DR: I got fired for not stealing $20.
2. TheCrazyCatLady_ was fired for not being a camel.
I used to work for a large discounted designer type shop. It was the middle of summer, and I worked in the warehouse tagging clothes. After a week, I get in and there are no cups at the water machine, and we're not allowed to bring in bottles. I report that there aren't any cups. A couple hours later, still no cups. At lunch, it's so busy you can't sit down whilst you eat. After being on my feet for about 6 hours, I fainted. Got sent home in a taxi, and as I'm getting in it, the manager tells me not to come back.
3. The big mistake that teddybear11127 made after getting fired was not putting that cone on her owner's head, like a unicorn.
I was a McDonald's manager and was already on thin ice for being lazy. So one of my friends comes in and orders a soft serve, so I make it the biggest fucking ice cream you've ever seen probably like 10 swirls and as I hand it over the owner of the store walks in...
4. So what's rumsfeldish supposed to do? Not slap hams? You gotta slap the hams.
Worked at a grocery store. Always slapped the hams when I walked passed. Management saw video told me to stop. I couldn't help it.
5. User brineydeepbrineydeep lost his job to pay for another job (a boob job).
In college I worked for a small video production company for about three years. One day, with no warning, my boss calls me into his office, sits me down and proceeds to tell me that I was too skilled for the work I was doing and that he preferred quantity over quality. I was fired on the spot. Two weeks later my old co-worker told me that he over heard my former bosses wife state that that the money the company was saving by firing me was going to pay for her new boob job.
6. I,f like Dan_the_moto_man, you aren't quite sure if you got fired or not, you probably got fired. And also screwed over.
Not quite fired, but I lost my job when the small company (3 employees) I worked for went out of business. I had seen this coming for a while, so it wasn't much of a surprise.
I was surprised two weeks later when I saw the two guys I had worked with driving around in the company truck (with a new logo, but doing the same thing). Yeah, they told me they closed for business, and then opened back up a couple weeks later doing the same thing, just without me anymore.
7. Once goatonaboat started in with the night pizza, then everybody was going to want the night pizza, and you can't have that.
I worked at a backpacker lodge outside of my home country, for the two weeks I had the job it was great. Then I got fired for allowing some guests that had just come in at 4am to eat pizza in the sitting area. I was meant to unlock and set up the dining hall, which would've taken fucking forever at that time, and these guests were jetlagged and hungry. They didn't make any mess, but my boss came storming in and fired me on the spot.
8. Sounds like that conniving harpy Ann Landers was behind your firing, delightfuldylan.
One day I was feeling extra lazy at work so I sat down at the table in the break room and started reading 'Dear, Abby' in our newspaper. My boss walked by, saw me, and told me to go do something, I thought it'd be witty so I said "but I'm reading Dear Abby!!!"
He fired me on the spot.
9. Dawn_of_the_Dave was terminated just for being too impressionable.
I worked in the same building as an animal testing company. On my first day there was a protest outside and we were told not to speak to or engage with the protestors in any way. I don't know what happened but as I was coming back from lunch I got all swept up in the moment and accidentally joined the protest. They even gave me a placard and a cool hat. Apparently the conversation with the boss inside went like this "Has anyone seen Dave? (looks out of window) never mind...”
10. User inkykinky took their work home with them, much to their chagrin. (Chagrin means "diarrhea.")
I got fired from a café after I stayed home with severe food poisoning. I got the food poisoning by eating food at the café.
11. Those books are for you and you only, green072410. Books are not meant to be shared. They're a single-use product, like a water bottle, or a diaper.
Years ago, I worked at Hastings (for those that don't know-Hastings is a book/movie/music store, they sell new & used items). I got fired for "misuse of the employee discount"-I admitted to Loss Prevention that I bought a book that both my mom & I wanted to read.
12. It makes sense why this person's account was deleted, because there's an army of greasy-faced kids and their parents on his tail.
I'm late to the party here but I was fired from Chuck E Cheese's for dressing up as Chuck and entering the main dining hall...without the head on. Needless to say, a lot of childhoods were ruined.
13. The customer service job maddkid53 held down was a great job, except for all of the customers.
I was fired from Kohl's for writing inappropriate comments on my void slips. When a customer does something stupid like wanting to add items after the sale has been completed, you have to void the sale, go back, and do it all over again. Super annoying. So on the void slip I would put the reason for the void at "fucking customer decided not to buy a shirt after they'd already bought it" or "stupid old lady wanted to add a candy bar after she'd already paid for everything."
I was pulled into the office one day, made to read all my slips out loud, and was terminated immediately.
14. For this story from Faith_in_Cheese to make sense, remember that 1) chips are what Australians call fries, and 2) they apparently cost thousands of dollars there.
Working at Red Rooster (Australian fast food) I was previously told that you could eat all the chips you want, as long as the customers couldn't see you. Fast forward a few months.
I get called in to the office, and it was basically explained to me very seriously that I had been caught on camera, STEALING FOUR SEPARATE CHIPS OVER A PERIOD OF A MONTH. Was basically given the option of quitting then and there or being fired.
15. _SPAM_, if burger chains are nothing else, they're a bastion of proper fashion.
I worked at Whataburger, a fast food restaurant chain, and was fired, on my first day in two hours, for not wearing black socks. I thought it was a joke, until the manager actually told me to go home.
16. Miggy_Wiggy is still the same old G, but they were not responsible for that old G.
I once worked for canadian tire, at this particular canadian tire there was an elevator between the lower and upper level of the warehouse, this elevator is filled with profanity and graffiti up the wahzoo, one day my manager starts acting strangely around me, and then a few hours later they call me into the office and pull out a piece of paper from when they first hired me, they said "this G here when you wrote your name looks similar to the G used here in this new graffiti we found, now i know you're still young but you have to understand that this is unacceptable behaviour blah blah blah...."
17. This story from Top_Wop will confirm every soul-killing suspicion you ever had about what it's like to work in a car dealership.
Worked for a car dealership in the finance department. The place that finances your car, tries to sell you life insurance on the loan, useless warranties, etc. The owner calls me into his office and tells me "Top_Wop, this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but I'm gonna let you go. I love your work. Your paper work is the best I've ever seen. You dot all the i's, cross all the t's and do a great job. But you don't have that killer instinct. You know what I mean. Basically, you don't or won't screw people. And we all know you have to do that in this business". So I got fired for not being a prick. Go figure.
18. Why didn't you think positive, scisorkick? What's wrong with you? Sad about getting laid off?
Our store was going out of business and I was "Too negative about the store closing"
On Wednesday morning, a construction worker took himself to the hospital after a venomous redback spider bit him on the penis while he used a porta-potty (the man, not the spider) at a Sydney work site. Oh, Australia, land of dangerous creatures and extreme conditions, you've done it again.
Okay, nobody wants to see the words "penis" and "spider" and "bite" in the same sentence, let alone the porta-potty part. And the redback spider, which is closely related to the black widow, has a poisonous bite that can cause severe pain, sweating, and nausea (much more than the pain, sweat, and nausea you might experience just from reading about it).
The 21-year-old man was later discharged and left the hospital in stable condition, so all's well that ends well (or ends without death due to painful spider bite right on the ol' johnson, at any rate). Honestly, the guy lives in Australia, he's lucky a shark didn't just leap out of the toilet and eat him. Expect to see an apology video from the spider (maybe with Amber Heard by its side, just for the hell of it) some time in the next few days.
Kelly Clarkson finally put up a photo of her second child, Remington Alexander Blackstock (what a name!), on Instagram. Actually, three photos, including an adorable one featuring little "Remy" with his older sister, River Rose, and two step-siblings. Clarkson's husband, talent manager Brandon Blackstock, has two children from a previous marriage.
Don't they look like a one-family vacation bible school? But little newborn Remy, of course, steals the show:
He looks like such a happy little boy. It's like he already knows his mom beat Justin Guarini back in season one of American Idol.
A few years ago, Christine Carter was horribly insecure and drowning her life in food, but now she's reached a point of self-confidence and happiness—oh, and she lost 150 pounds against her ex's ill-meaning wishes.
"I had eaten myself into an unrecognizable state," Carter told Us Weekly. Each month, she'd spend as much as $2,000 to fuel her binge eating. Then in 2014, Carter finally got over feeling like crap all the time. Following a humiliating family reunion, Carter received a gastric sleeve.
Despite the weight loss surgery, it was only when she dedicated herself to a healthier lifestyle that the changes in her 5'5" body were more evident. Now, after undergoing surgery to remove excess skin and staying committed to her health, Carter is content. Here's Carter rocking the same bikini before and after her weight loss.
Carter, speaking with the Daily Mail, discussed the one person in her life who wasn't so into her weight loss: her boyfriend, who resented Carter for shedding the pounds. "My ex was very controlling, told me what to wear and I believe he wanted me to be fat so that I wouldn't leave him," she said. "[M]y ex became very insecure and jealous and I gained the confidence to see that I was not in a healthy relationship and needed to get out." Basically, her boyfriend was intimidated by a successful woman.
You can tell just by looking at the photos how much happier Carter is without that excess baggage:
Oh yeah, and the weight loss looks great, too.
