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Beyonce experiences the joy of a Beyonce concert when audience already knows 'Hold Up' lyrics.

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At the launch of the Formation World Tour Wednesday night, Bey was taken aback when the whole audience knew the words to "Hold Up," even though it had only been released unto the world four days before. Her reaction was so damn sweet.

Lemonade mania (Lemonadia?) has taken over the world. The anthems have really moved people, and that really moves Beyoncé.

"Hold Up," the song that gifted us with the best GIFs.

The people just witnessed a deity experiencing a real human moment. 

Beyoncé Was So Taken Aback When Fans Knew The Words To "Hold Up"
They don't love you like we love you.

People are horrified when live stream of an eagle nest goes horribly natural and a cat gets fed to eaglets.

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Delete your Periscope, the livestream game has been won by the brutal force of nature that is two eagles feeding their young. In eastern Pittsburgh, a nest cam run by Pix Controller caught two eagles feeding a cat to their eaglets. Though the video isn't gory, be warned that you will indeed see a lifeless cat plopped down in front of two hungry eagle babies.

As the video went viral and disturbed swaths of naive dunces unaware of how the whole predator and prey cycle works, the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania responded to clarify that nature isn't always scenic.

Here's the message in full.

We've received a number of questions about the Hays Bald Eagles bringing a cat into the nest yesterday. It's true that they brought in a cat and it's also true that they fed it to the eaglets. After reviewing the footage, we believe that the cat was dead when brought to the nest. While many may cringe at this, the eagles bring squirrels, rabbits, fish (and other animals) into the nest to eat multiple times each day. To people, the cat represents a pet but to the eagles and to other raptors, the cat is a way to sustain the eaglets and help them to grow. At Audubon, we encourage people to keep cats indoors for many reasons--primarily because cats themselves eat many, many songbirds. While seeing a cat in the nest was difficult for many, we're hopeful that people will understand that this is a part of nature, and nature isn't always kind or pretty.

If eagles aren't afraid to bite our next president, they definitely weren't about to hesitate around a fluffy kitty.

This guy left the meanest, most profane love note for the chef at his favorite burger place.

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On Wednesday, an Imgur user (PerUsualGiven) posted a picture of a note his cousin, a chef at Illinois restaurant Burger Antics, got from a customer. Yes, the note, which is actually addressed to the owner, starts with "F*CK you!!" but it is actually just about the nicest note a restaurant could ever receive.

Wow. Been there.

The full text of the note reads:

To the owner:

F*CK you!! Your burgers are so f*cking good that all other food is ruined for me. Every experience here tops the previous one, and as tasty and delicious as it all is, I'm never satisfied. I always want more. Just 3 ounces more! Or 40! I live for your food, and I'd die for your food. And so, I leave you with this: I love you, f*ck you, Andy.

Oh, man. This note so eloquently describes the feeling of agonizing passion that overcomes you when you're really obsessed with something, a feeling of ardor bordering on anger. Sort of like the confusing urge to smoooooosh puppies heads when you are just trying to gently pet them. It's like Lenny and the rabbits in Of Mice and Men, only it's Of Andy and Burgers. Hopefully no one has to shoot Andy. Oops, did you not finish that book? Sorry.

Mom misunderstands insurance agent's request for 'side, rear' photos, joins mom hall of fame.

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A teen girl by the Twitter handle of @mirandaasantos (so let's assume her last same is Santos) shared a contender for greatest throwback photo of all time, because it's incredibly embarrassing and such a mom moment. The photo, as UPROXX explained, is part of a text exchange between Santos's mother—Susan—and an insurance agent, after a car accident. The insurance agent requests side, rear, and front view photos. Susan delivered.

"That felt weird :)," Susan texted her agent, "thanks Eva hope those work?!!" Not quite.

"Susan you look very nice," Eva responded, "but i need pictures of your vehicle."

Oh, mom.

Susan can now be inducted into the Mom Hall of Fame.

So much mommy earnestness going on here.

As unusual a response as it seems when working with an insurance agent, a lot of people related to Susan.

Susan, you're not alone. There are others out there like you.

And so many more hoping to one day reach your level of mom.

Quit your job and leave your family, there’s a cute-as-hell new otter pup at the Bronx Zoo.

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Spring is here! And so are all the babies! There have been a ton of celebrity pregnancies in the last few months, and now the rest of the animal kingdom is trying to catch up, starting with this adorable teeny little baby otter (BABY OTTER! baby otter baby otter baby otter) at NYC's Bronx Zoo.


Look at that lil' dude! He is so little! Tiny little webbed feet! It's actually a scientific fact* that baby otters are the cutest of all baby animals. And look how the other otters can easily drag him around by his tail. See, this is why human children need tails.

(*completely made up)

25 ridiculous things people were cheap enough to sneak into movie theaters.

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Why would someone sneak food into a movie theater? Because the prices at the cinema are bloody exorbitant, and you already paid $15 to suffer through Batman v. Superman. For example, a large soda in the theater probably costs the same as a decent bottle of vino in your corner store. 

Cinema soda or corner store wine? Corner store wine all the way, baby.

Seriously, you'd think their nachos are sprinkled with actual flakes of gold. To spite the high costs, the following 25 heroes brought whatever the hell their hungry hearts desired. 

1. KatrinaJack and her friend snuck in this humongous cheesecake from Costco. Um, how?!

One of them must have a huge purse.

2. If the birthday girl wants a cake at the movies, let her have cake in the movies, dammit.

3. Speaking of cake, this is probably the most ridiculous way to sneak sugary food in, courtesy of AskReddit.

I was in theater in high school. One night we decided to use a wheelchair from the prop room to smuggle a birthday cake into the movies. My buddy sat in it and we put a blanket over his lap/birthday cake.

Delicious times were had.

4. Imagine how messy it would be to eat fried rice in the dark. Not to worry, this rebellious girl is a pro.

5. Scratch that, Winterfell333 is lord of sneaking and eating Chinese food at the movies.

4 large to-go boxes full of Chinese food and 4 large drinks. All in my purse. It was a fucking huge purse.

We ate our fill during the movies, and then the stoners sitting behind us asked for our leftovers. 8 people had dinner from my purse that night.

6. This dude snuck his friend into the movies in probably the most complicated yet ingenious way possible.

7. Forget your bro, sneak in your furry friend instead.

8. And then pray that the moviegoer sitting next to you isn't deathly allergic of canines.

9. Iwonderwho got the employees cleaning up after the movie saying "iwonderwho the hell made fairy bread in this theater."

My friend brought in a loaf of bread, a slab of butter, rainbow sprinkles and a butter knife. He made fairy bread, right there and then in the cinema.

Fucking... Epic...

Fairy bread: a slice of white bread smothered with butter and colorful sprinkles.

10. One of the more important reasons why your man should carry your purse.

11. But if you don't have a purse, here's another ridiculous method to sneak some drinks in.

12. BloodyTotallySirius is a former employee who probably quit for this reason.

As someone who worked at a movie theater the most impressive thing I have seen was a gallon of milk, like the ones with the handle, and a box of oreos. I wasn't even mad, though I would have been more impressed if grown ass adults could throw things into a trash can :/ Ooh, and on a separate occasion twelve mini bottles of rose wine...we had to carry that man out to a taxi

13. Drink your shake, but can you please turn off your cellphone?

14. Nancydrewskillz's blind date at the movies has skillz—with sneaking food, but definitely not with dating.

I once went on a blind date with a guy to a movie, and as we sat down in the theater, he slid two bottles of iced tea from the sleeves of his hoodie into his hands.

And that was about the only impressive thing that happened that night.

15. These dudes probably got caught, too. Pro tip: eat your prohibited food when the lights turn off.

16. She is straight up having a picnic. A. PICNIC.

Picnic in the movie theatre!! @kyp1005 #snuckfood #intothetheatre #earlssandwiches #peanutbutterbrownie #werefatties

A photo posted by Michelle 💜 (@ms_michelleyyy) on

17. This woman used a trump card that even The Donald wouldn't get mad at. Well, maybe.

Ok, so I love sneaking food into the movies. I have made it a competitive sport, and being a woman, this gives me a distinct advantage. My crowning achievement was when I bought a giant salad from the Olive Garden. The thing was huge, and it gave me a brilliant idea. The bowl was just the right size for my frame to be a very pregnant belly. I slipped it under a hoodie, and got in with a bunch of friends.

The best part is that you can reuse the bowl to bring in other foodstuffs. I've snuck in sodas, pizza, beer, candy, all sorts of stuff, all while pretending to be pregnant. Nobody is going to stop a pregnant lady and ask them if their tummy is lumpy, and no one has yet noticed that I'm conspicuously less rotund when I exit the theater.

tl;dr; I snuck a salad into a theater by pretending to be pregnant.

18. Not the most impressive sneak-in, but it was love at first bite for these two.

19. You really need a ridiculously huge wallet for this one. Actually, don't use a wallet, that's just gross.

Like:

20. Her method is conjuring up all sorts of fashionable ways to sneak food in. Hamburger necklace? Nah.

21. Simplybrowsing and his dad probably reside in the United Kingdom.

My dad snuck in sandwiches and a kettle of tea. With tea cups. No joke.

 

A teakettle. Not a small, portable container. A freaking teakettle.

22. The theater food of champions.

23. Wait, fenney. Did you bring all of these in one trip? A Christmas tree, seriously?!

2 big bags of McDonald's drive-through with drinks?

A tennis racket?

250 glow-sticks?

3 foot Christmas tree?

We used to do stupid shit when we were teenagers.

24. Sometimes, you need to walk in that theater with a full heart, clear eyes, and pull a boss move like IRSoup.

Me and a buddy walked in with 2 large pepperoni pizzas, 20 hot wings, and an order of cheese sticks once. Literally just walked in, no one said a damn thing. We even bought drinks at the concessions stand. I felt jealous eyes on us that night.

Edit: I might add there were a lucky few that we gave some of the food to.

Ex-queeze me, pepperoni?

25. ​Pure anarchy, Rilkal. Pure and utter anarchy.

A large box of popcorn from a competing cinema.

Now, don't go and try these out, kids. At least, don't get caught.

Patti Davis pens open letter to Will Ferrell shaming him for making fun of her dad in new film.

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The news that Will Ferrell be returning to the Oval Office to play a dementia-stricken Ronald Reagan in a movie trickled down this week, and the late Gipper's family is not amused. The film, creatively titled Reagan, was written by Mike Rosolio, and Ferrell is slated to both produce and star.

The script follows a second-term Reagan as he starts to experience dementia, and an intern is tasked with convincing Reagan that he's simply playing the president in a movie.

Ferrell in the White House, back where he belongs.

Patti Davis, former First Daughter and current author, is not laughing at the premise, writing an open letter to Ferrell that comes out swinging.

Dear Mr. Ferrell,

I saw the news bulletin — as did everyone — that you intend to portray my father in the throes of Alzheimer’s for a comedy that you are also producing. Perhaps you have managed to retain some ignorance about Alzheimer’s and other versions of dementia. Perhaps if you knew more, you would not find the subject humorous.

She goes on to describe the horrors of Alzheimer's, arguing that it should not be used for humor:

Alzheimer’s doesn’t care if you are President of the United States or a dockworker. It steals what is most precious to a human being — memories, connections, the familiar landmarks of a lifetime that we all come to rely on to hold our place secure in this world and keep us linked to those we have come to know and love. I watched as fear invaded my father’s eyes — this man who was never afraid of anything. I heard his voice tremble as he stood in the living room and said, “I don’t know where I am.” I watched helplessly as he reached for memories, for words, that were suddenly out of reach and moving farther away. For ten long years he drifted — past the memories that marked his life, past all that was familiar…and mercifully, finally past the fear.

There was laughter in those years, but there was never humor.

One of Reagan's sons, Michael Reagan, tweeted out his view:

While Ferrell planned to produce the movie under his production banner Gary Sanchez Productions, no studio has officially greenlit the project, and The Hollywood Reporter speculates that Reagan's children coming forward could prevent the movie from happening. 

"I think there's a strong chance this film won't get made now. The outrage and the president's children coming out and saying that they don't want it to be made, I think that could have a very detrimental effect on this movie getting greenlit," Matthew Belloni of The Hollywood Reporter said.

Ferrell and other movie people have yet to respond.


Someone made an adorable-looking romantic comedy about the Obamas' first date.

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There is a new movie coming out about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, and it will make you fall in love with watching the President and First Lady fall in love. The film, set to come out this August, is called Southside with You, and spoiler alert—the two end up getting together, having kids, and becoming the First Family of the United States. 

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has already received positive reviews from multiple critics. Really good-looking actors Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter portray Barack Obama and Michelle LaVaughn Robinson respectively, and the two do a pretty convincing job; Sawyers nails Barack's unique speech patterns while Sumpter rocks those Michelle Obama brows like you wouldn't believe. 

Could a movie really capture this level of adorableness? 

The movie, produced by John Legend, follows how Barack took Michelle (his boss at the time, very scandalous) on a date through the Southside of Chicago on a summer day in 1989. Although Michelle continually claims that "it's not a date," a kiss over an ice cream cone doesn't lie! The movie seems like a nice departure from the "angry white guys in suits who yell a lot" bio-pics of former Presidents

Imagine is these two met in the age of Tinder? Michelle never would have swiped right if Barack had a picture up of his crappy car. Seriously, what was going on there?

Weekend

Olympic closing ceremony outfits make Team USA look like prep school kids on spring break.

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The Olympic uniforms for Team USA were released on Wednesday, and they would be great if America only competed in the sailing and tennis events. Actually, they'd be perfect if America only competed in polo. Speaking of polo, the uniforms were designed by Ralph Lauren, and they look very much like a vintage Ralph Lauren ad from the 1980s. Here are the Team USA uniforms for the closing ceremonies:

Here are some vintage Ralph Lauren ads circa 1982:

Can't be bothered.
Wolves of Wall Street.

The uniforms even look like they were inspired by the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley:

#mcm #judelaw #dickiegreenleaf #talentedmrripley #instagay #mancrushmonday

A photo posted by b (@whiskey_tearz) on

There are ways to sport red, white, and/or blue without looking like a rich bully. Check out the uniforms from some of our allies in the free world with similar colors:

France

Canada

Great Britain

Team USA has already suffered defeat in the fashion event. Hopefully top American athletes earn enough medals to put around their necks and cover up those goofy polo shirts.

16 people who met celebrities and found out they're just like us: jerks.

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Celebrities can't be expected to always be "on." They'd be weirdos if they weren't occasionally rude or mean. (Except Tom Hanks. He's a treasure.) 16 Here are the stories of some redditors who met celebrities in the real world and it didn't go well.

Would it surprise you to learn that Halle Berry is rude? If so, you're not paying attention.

1. ShowStoppa718 learned that the Band-Aid Nelly used to wear covered up the hole where his sense of humor fell out.

I was working in the 4 seasons in Atlanta when in comes this slim black dude wearing a feathered jacket, with his signature bandaid on his eye. (It was 2003). I immediately recognized him. "Oh shit, it's Nelly" I said to myself as we locked eyes. I was buffing the marble floors as he and his entourage entered the hotel lobby. As he walked past me, he looks at me and kicked up his leg and yelled "WHOOPS!!" as if he slipped. His entourage followed up with the fakest payroll laugh, and I forever hate Nelly.

2. AnalAttackProbe witnessed Bob Dylan behaving exactly like you'd expect Bob Dylan to behave. But he can get away with it because he's Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan is the biggest asshole I've ever worked with. My production company put on a show for him a few years back and he was an absolute nightmare. The show was at a basketball arena and he wouldn't let anyone be on the same floor as him, no matter the circumstance. At one point he had his security detail kick 60 workers who'd put in 10-12 straight hours of manual labor out of the dining hall during their meal break so he could eat alone. ​

3. Durbee got to see diva Cybil Shepherd diva-ing out over bottled water. The true tragedy is that Shepherd had no idea how trite that is.

Cybill Shephard (sp?) was very difficult on-set. I was pretty young, but tagged along with my mother, who was offering setting advice during three scenes. Memorably, production was halted for a scene of her drinking coffee, because she insisted on Evian that could only be dyed brown with organic and non-caloric coloring that also tasted acceptable. Evian decaf wasn't even enough. It was a very small town, and Evian wasn't exactly convenience store fare at the time. The delays put everyone on edge.

You can't take hydration too seriously.

4. User oh_sempai's mom didn't mean to cut him off. Now Gotye's just somebody that he makes fun of on Reddit.

Anyway, last year, my mother saw Gotye in the coffee shop she often visits so as any reporter in the music industry would do she approaches him to ask if he could do a quick interview. Before she says much he turns around and starts yelling "I'M SO SICK OF PEOPLE ASKING ME FOR SHIT, JUST LET ME FUCKING RELAX!!! FUCKING LEAVE ME ALONE!" Etcetera.

5. Scott Baio—Chachi! The Charles who is in charge! Other things?—was a child star, and according to meganjoella, he's now paying that particular brand of misery forward.

Scott Baio. I was an extra on an episode of See Dad Run and he was being extremely rude to a young girl. The girl was Bailey Michelle Brown, a regular on the show, and she's like 8 years old. She messed up on a line a couple times and missed her mark once or twice and he said to her, "Look, you need to pay attention! I wanna get outta here, and I can't do that if you keep ruining the takes! This is your job and you can't even do it correctly!" And that was when I lost all respect for him.

6. Whoa, whoa, whoa, monsterosity. You start by telling us Wesley Snipes was rude? You're burying the lede.

Father of an ex girlfriend worked with Wesley Snipes on Blade. Incredibly stuck up and full of himself were his description. He also pissed on the heavy equipment rather than going to the bathroom.

7. This story from egonz_123 would probably be the worst thing a celebrity could be caught doing… if it was any other celebrity.

My ex's Dad met Bill Cosby many years ago at a bar in Atlantic City and told him that he really liked his shoes. Bill Cosby responded very rudely "Get away from me you fuckin' cracker."

8. SnipeyMcSnipe met Randy Jackson, and it was a gas.

We stopped at a gas station just off of the freeway right outside of LA and I went in to get a drink. I saw Randy Jackson walking around. (The guy from American Idol) I saw him pacing back and forth in the corner by himself looking at the drinks. I just kind of lurked because I was too intimidated to talk to him or anything. I never met a celebrity before.

So I didn't talk to him but after he grabbed a drink I headed over to the corner so I could grab one. Then it hit me. I walked into the rankest fart that possibly ever was. He dropped ass and didn't have the courtesy to pick it up. I knew it was him too because he was the only one over there.

9. It seems like Dicktremain got off pretty easy.

I threw up on Hulk Hogan's shoe and he yelled at me.

10. Tommy Lee Jones is such a tough guy that he let xtinmonty have it because he got in the way of him doing tough guy stuff—buying a latte.

I used to work at Starbucks in San Antonio and Tommy Lee Jones has a home there. He strolled into my store one day. He was a dick. He argued with us about a syrup charge and then complained about his drink. We offered to remake it, but he left grumbling and being an overall dick. I know he has that reputation, but I honestly didn't really believe it until I interacted with him. One of the customers asked for his autograph and he told her to fuck herself.

TLJ has bad blood with everybody.

11. User crdpoker thought Alan Rickman was rude, but honestly, wouldn't you totally want Alan Rickman to be rude to you?

Buddy was getting an autograph from Alan Rickman. Rickman asked what his name was/who he should make it out to. Friend says "Joseph - also, can you sign it 'Oh god, you're one of them?'" Rickman realizes it's from Die Hard. Stops signing, hands pen/paper back to him and walks off. Pretty awesome actually.

12. In this story from anotherredditvirgin, Chris Rock brings the pain (the pain and annoyance caused by being a no-good line-cutter).

I had waited an hour and a half in line for a ride at Great Adventure. Was in the front seat line so the wait was even longer. Finally, I was next in line--watched gleefully as my train pulled in. And Chris Rock and his family come walking up from the exit and are given my spot, without waiting at all. I was both sad and mad and have held a grudge against him ever since

12. Perhaps the most impressive stunt that daredevil Evel Knievel ever pulled off was punching msjtx when he was a child and not getting arrested.

When I was about 7, I was in the airport with my mom and her boyfriend and a friend of mine. My mother's boyfriend told us that Evel was in one of the lounges. He was sitting in a back corner, drinking a glass of some kind of booze and engulfed in a cloud of cigarette smoke.

We both approached him excitedly and asked for his autograph. He was obviously drunk, but he picked up a couple of cocktail napkins and scratched out his signature on both of them. Then he looked at us and said, "before I give you these, I'm going to teach you something." My friend at I looked at each other, totally starstruck and grinning like idiots.

Evel proceeded to tap both of us on the arm. "Does that hurt?" he asked. We both shook our heads and said no. Then he poked us lightly in the chest, "does that hurt?" Again we both said no in unison. Then he made fists out of both hands with the middle knuckle sticking out and brought them down sharply and simultaneously, protruding knuckle first, onto both of our heads. "Does that hurt?" he asked. Neither of us could really answer, I was holding back tears from the pain. He waited a few seconds and said: "that's why you wear a safety helmet," and handed us the napkins.

13. Kicking whoatethekidsthen out of an airport lounge is the worst thing Halle Berry has ever done, second only to that sci-fi show that was on TV a couple of summers ago.

I was at O'Hare waiting for my flight to Baltimore to start boarding and had about an hour to kill. So I figured I'd get a coffee, maybe a book or something to kill time.

Walk into a duty free shop and start browsing. I'm half paying attention until I hear a woman arguing with the cashier. I think "meh, what a cunt" until I hear, "I'm not coming in until you make him leave and I NEED TO GET IN NOW."

I turn and Halle Berry and her entourage are staring daggers at me. The cashier looks terrified and conflicted. I kinda just stood there, still not understanding Storm is bitching about me.

So I pay and begin to walk out and she huffs, "Ugh, finally. No autographs," and I responded "Your husband Will Smith is the best," while putting my headphones on.

I hope it really pissed her off.

14. User ana8964 does not specify if this was in West Philadelphia (born and raised).

Will Smith was terrible. My friend lived next door to him for a couple years and they never returned the balls that would end up in their yard.

15. It's gonna be a long, long time before scig6 forgives Elton John.

I was a manager of an FBO where private planes park. Anyway, Elton John's jet came in one night and when he walked down the stairs to his limo I said hi to him. He looked at me and laughed in the most rude and condescending way as if to say "how dare you say hi to me!". So, when we unloaded his plane he had several huge bags filled with jello and pudding and we helped ourselves to it because fuck him!

16. He's "America's Toughest Sheriff" and he will help you to your fries if he damn well pleases, hellyaman.

Not really a celebrity but well known. I was at a riverside restaurant in Arizona with my best friend and his family when Sheriff Joe Arpaio walks in. My friends dad starts talking to him next to our table and during the conversation he reaches down and steals a couple of my French frys and eats them mid conversation. Who does that?!

Here's how much it costs to have your favorite celebrities appear at a private event.

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Celebrities make lots of money in lots of different ways, and sometimes that involves making appearances at private events. To say that many stars have a high price is an understatement, but for whatever reason there's a contingent of wealthy people who will actually pay it. Sometimes it's for a lucky young person's bar or bat mitzvah. Sometimes it's a corrupt political dictator—who earned their fortune by stealing most of their country's fortune—who just wants to have a good time. Either way, the celebrities get paid a crazy amount to perform. Here are the most bizarre and silly times it happened:

1. J. Lo

J. Lo took some heat in 2013 when it was discovered she was paid $1.5 million to perform at the birthday party for Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, president of Turkmenistan. This is the video from the performance, which you know is authentic because she takes the stage yelling "Turkmenistan!" Human Rights Watch says Turkmenistan and its president have a "disastrous human rights record" and that it's one of the world's most tightly repressed countries. 

2. Nicki Minaj

Get a load of these little hunks I met last night @ the Bar Mitzvah 😩 they were very ummm turnT

A photo posted by Nicki Minaj (@nickiminaj) on

Minaj, famous for her booty, made an appearance at a Bar Mitzvah in New York, which also became famous because of her Instagram post with several star-struck young men. Seriously, that kid on the right never washed his cheek after she touched it. He's hypnotized. It only cost the parents several hundred thousand dollars to get her to show up, which is the cost of an Ivy League education or a dope yacht, both of which he'll probably get later in life. 

3. Snooki at Rutgers

Rutgers State University in New Jersey (not quite on the shore) paid Snooki $32,000 to make a speech to students. She wisely told them to "study hard, but party harder." It's unclear if they gave her an honorary degree in Orange, but what is clear is that Rutgers paid her slightly more moneyto appear than author Toni Morrison received the very same year. Yes, the Toni Morrison who won the Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

4. Hilary Swank 

Hilary Swank was paid a few hundred thousand to appear at the birthday celebration for Ramzan Kadyrov, the Head of the Chechen Republic. The video shows the dictator dancing (poorly), with Swank and Jean-Claude Van Damme watching in the crowd. Dictators throw some weird-ass parties. Anyway, Swank claimed to have no prior knowledge of this guy being a monster who squashes human rights, and also claimed to give the money to charity (after she got caught).

5. Mariah Carey

Technically, she didn't go to Libya.

​Before the Arab Spring and before Libya fell into chaos, it was run by Muammar Qaddafi. His son, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, reportedly paid Carey $1 million to sing four songs at a year's New Year's party in St. Barts. Like all the other dictators in this article, the Qaddafi family and legacy were known for oppression and human rights abuses while reigning over Libya.

6. Beyoncé 

Bey decided to take up the Qaddafi clan on a pile of cash the year after Mariah Carey, for a New Year's celebration that also went down in St. Barts. She was paid a cool million to perform, and the above video shows some secret footage from the performance. She claimed to have donated the moneyone year before it became a public relations problem for her. She always knows how to turn lemons into lemonade.

7. Sting

the 2009 General Défilé fashion show in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

In 2009, Sting performed at an event in Uzbekistan for Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of dictator Islam Karimov. The picture above is Sting with the dictator's daughter at an "arts festival." To his credit, Sting acknowledged that he was fully aware about the country's terrible human rights record, and that he doesn't think cultural boycotts are going to change the way a country works. So he kept the money. It's not surprising that he was unapologetic; he does what he wants, like naming himself after a present tense verb.

8. Drake

Drake performed at a Bat Mitzvah at The Rainbow Room, an event space at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. He was paid $250,000 for the appearance, and the best part is that he was her second choice. That's right, they couldn't afford the $1 million demanded by Kanye, so they had to settle for Drake.

If you want to have a lavish birthday party, all it takes is a few hundred thousand lying around for you take it to the next level. It also helps if you have rich parents, or if you run a nation that was once rich in gas or natural oil before you hoarded all the profits.

This pizza place thought so far outside the box that they made the box out of pizza.

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Vinnie's Pizzeria in Brooklyn, NY., the proud home of the "T.HANKS" garbage can, has invented a pizza box made out of pizza, with a pizza inside it. Is there a Nobel Pizza Prize? No? Well, there should be, and it should go to Vinnie's.

Sean Berthiaume, one of the pizzeria's owners, told BuzzFeed the inspiration came from people asking for a box for their pizza even when they weren't taking it to go. "There’s no point, it fills the the trash can," he said, "So I thought, what if you could just eat the box?"

The ingenious invention is made of three separate pieces—the bottom of the "box" (a Sicilian slice), the cover (garlic bread), and, of course, the contents (the small pizza inside). So far, Berthiaume is the only one making the pizza box pizzas, which take over an hour to make (for reference, a regular pizza takes about 10 to 15 minutes to make), but he says due to demand the restaurant will probably have to train more employees. Each pizza box pizza costs $40, because of the amount of food and the time it takes to create them.

Now all they need is soda cups made out of ice to hold drinks, and the zero waste meal will be complete.

Urban Outfitters stops stocking Anatomicals' 'suicide' shampoo because someone finally said the obvious.

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Urban Outfitters, that edgy store found in a mall near you, is currently upsetting people for having stocked a shampoo for "suicidal hair"—a tagline so chosen because the product "bring your locks back from a state of complete depression," BuzzFeed reported. Um. First off, hair doesn't get depressed. Secondly, seriously??

Nooope. Nope, nope.

The product, from the company Anatomicals, has apparently been in stores for years, the company's co-founder Paul Marshall told BuzzFeed. It was only after Sam Missingham tweeted a photo of the shampoo that people began to sit up and notice the shampoo.

The back of the bottle is just as bad. No, it's worse: it features a woman with long hair jumping off a cliff and this text:

Well, I knew it was feeling a little off colour, but I just put that down to the bad dye job. I never knew my once beautiful hair would actually commit suicide by tossing itself off dramatic white cliffs to the rocks below. Now look at me, completely bald.

Before it’s too late, bring your locks back from a state of complete depression with this conditioning peach shampoo. It’s hair heaven here on earth.

Missingham tweeted her outrage after her friend's teenage daughter alerted her to the existence of the ridiculous shampoo. Good job, anonymous daughter, for drawing attention to this product that has gone unnoticed for too long.

“As an adult, I am fully aware that the advertising and branding of beauty products relies on a level of manipulation,” Missingham told BuzzFeed. “Teenage girls don’t necessarily have the maturity and experience to filter out such messaging."

She put it quite bluntly that, “To use suicide as a marketing hook shows a phenomenal level of idiocy and, quite frankly, is entirely unnecessary."

Our happy place? The Dress Shop at @UOKentucky. 📷: @sarah_louiseb_ #UODisplay

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Antomicals and Urban Outfitters have ceded that there is truth in Missingham's words.

“We’re probably not going to continue selling the product,” Marshall told BuzzFeed. "That’s not to say that we’ve [bowed] down to a couple of people who have made comments that we don’t agree with. So we’re not bowing down to a nanny state, that’s for sure." 

Some Rihanna shade is most appropriate here.

"But we don’t wish to offend anyone, and that’s why we have removed it from sale," the Anatomicals co-founder added. "We are a cool, young, fun, irreverent brand—look at all our other products, they all have cute, funny titles." Other shampoo titles include The Sleek Shall Inherit the Earth. 

“We want to bring smiles," Marshall said, "to people’s bathrooms, we never set out to offend.”

Urban Outfitter's response has been much more succinct.

Good riddance, suicidal shampoo. 


The top 41 tweets of the week, picked by someone who reads all the tweets on Twitter.

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This was an action-packed week, featuring five primary elections, a new Beyonce album, President Obama traveling abroad, the NFL draft, and the breadless holiday of Passover. Tweets on these topics, plus jokes about Happy Days, signs on bathrooms, Jabba The Hutt and more, in the top 41 tweets of the week!

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Face it, you will try this beer made from belly button lint because you're curious.

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If you've ever plucked an impressive piece of lint from your naval and thought, "I must find a way to get drunk off of this," you should know about the guys at Australia's 7 Cent Brewery, who found a way to do that. Brewers Doug Bremner, Matthew Boustead, and Brendan Baker are set to debut the new belly button brew at the 2016 Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular, and describe it best in their beautifully shot promotional video: "sometimes to go forward, you need to be a little bit backward."

They are likely the first brewers in the world to develop a beer from belly button lint (it'd be pretty insane if they weren't).

Bremner assured Mashable of the beer's uniqueness, and whether it appeals to you or not, chemically-speaking he isn't wrong.

I can guarantee there is no other beer in the world that will taste exactly like this beer because it is our yeast and we have cultivated it up.

Here's how and why the process works, as described in their announcement.

Some say why? We say why not?

The process of isolating our own yeast strain involved swabbing samples of each of the brewer’s belly buttons and getting our full science on by streaking out the samples on agar plates. After allowing the plates to incubate, we found all sorts of interesting things growing, including what appeared to be colonies of yeast. Positive controls were used to help us identify yeast colonies and negative controls were used to ensure our techniques were sterile. We selected individual yeast colonies and grew them up until we had pitchable quantities for trial batches.

But how does it taste? Lint-y?

The beer itself is in the style of a new world-ish Belgian-ish Witbier with fresh orange zest and toasted coriander seeds. The yeast exhibits qualities of Belgian beer with the key characteristics being spiciness, clove and light banana esters.

Most importantly, WTF were they thinking?

The inspiration for this beer arose a couple of years ago when Rogue produced their Beard Beer fermented with yeast captured from the brewer’s beard. We tried the beer and instantly started talking about other places you could capture yeast from. 

"Yeast is yeast no matter where you get it from...." Truly words to live by.

It won't be on the market for a while, which means you have time to consider if a buzz is worth tasting these guys' shirt litter.

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'Livid' model Brooklyn Decker live-tweets saga of missing a flight so she could pump breast milk.

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On Wednesday, model and new mom Brooklyn Decker tweeted her anger about missing a flight because she was pumping breastmilk in an airport bathroom. The flight had already boarded, but was delayed by two hours, and passengers were told they could de-plane. Decker, who gave birth in October, left the plane to pump milk, but when she returned, she was told the flight was already closed.

Decker says she only left the plane in the first place because she was self-conscious about pumping in public, thinking it might be offensive to the guy sitting next to her. The irony, as she points out, is "he probably sucked a boob too."

The thing to remember is that this poor woman couldn't even have the drink she so badly wanted until after she pumped, or else the baby would be drinking wine, too. There haven't been any updates from Decker about whether or not the airline has apologized or tried to make it up to her, but she has tweeted since then, so at least she hasn't actually drowned herself in wine, and one can assume she's made it back to her baby. Who she probably won't want to leave again any time soon. 

Zac Efron fell over while doing a ’Baywatch’ beach run. The Internet was merciless.

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On Tuesday, Zac Efron posted a photo collage featuring him and his Baywatch movie costars doing that show's iconic beach run. Apparently, the dirty blonde-haired dreamboat wasn’t that bro enough to conquer the show’s most famous sequence. In the first photo, Efron looked like he totally nailed the beach run. In the second, the actor immediately busted his ass and made out with the sand. 

He captioned:

Yeah, thats it- Run coooool
*cool thoughts*
Oh yeah, Feelin it
*think coo- AGH WTF

When you're more concerned with how "coooool" you look whilst doing something, you'll inevitably screw shit up. Sorry, bro.

And what is the Internet to do when they see a photo of a celebrity committing to a terrible, terrible fall? They transform the original photo into an unfortunate, yet hilarious series of dank memes, of course.

Count on Efron to ruin your family photo.
A topless Morgan Freeman makes this fictional movie worth seeing.
There can only be one HOFF.
Connor McGregor vs. Zac Efron. Who will win?
This one's too perfect.
Avengers assemble!
Austin 3:16 says I whooped your ass.
One Reddit user captioned: "Michael Baywatch."

Zac apparently saw the memes and loved it.

The Baywatch movie is slated for May 2017. Until then, keep falling Zac Efron. The Internet will love you even more for it.

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