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Lindsay Lohan and her lingerie pay tribute to victims of terrorism.

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Have you ever looked at a huge mistake made by Mischa Barton and thought to yourself, "I wanna do that"? Apparently, Lindsay Lohan has.

Yesterday, the Parent Trap star posted her sympathies for the victims in Nice and Turkey the only way a national disaster can: by posing seductively on a bed in a hotel's penthouse.

Along with a lingerie selfie where she's sexily putting her fingers in her mouth, Lohan posted this heartfelt but ultimately out-of-place message:

If history were to be folded ...
Where would we put the crease?
Pray for the ones we lose everyday and appreciate every breathe you -we - all - take #nice#turkey#turnup and do something (goodnight and sleep with an idea for the future)

This is all very reminiscent of Mischa Barton's expression of sympathy she posted for Alton Sterling while boozing aboard a yacht.

This post has since been removed from her Instagram following the negative response.

Lohan adds another level to the weird, however, when she also curiously uses the hashtag #turnup, which she probably meant to implore people to show up for the cause, but is really a term that means "getting wasted." For instance, here is a popular post that also features the hashtag #turnup.

Friday July 22! We will be hosting club cocos @miami_cocos 💃🏻💃🏻🤑🤑🤑 #doubledosetwins #realsisters #turnup

A video posted by Double Dose Twins👯 (@doubledose_twins) on

Eesh. Can someone please help this girl? Give her a few pointers on how social media works. Or just take her phone away.

Lohan's sentiment probably came from the right place, but was executed so poorly. Please, Lindsay, don't ask us where we put the crease when we are a light breeze away from seeing yours.

Taylor Swift probably can't prosecute for the Kanye recording, to make her week even worse.

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Apparently, Taylor Swift can't successfully sue Kim Kardashian for releasing footage of her approving the Kanye West lyrics about her on his song "Famous," TMZ is reporting. The reason? Swift knew she was speaking to a room full of people, meaning she had no reasonable expectation of privacy—making the recording totally legal, according to California state law.

Apparently, in California, it's illegal to record a conversation without the other person's consent—except if it's a conversation that "may be overheard." On the call, West puts Taylor on speaker phone, and West's crew, along with producer Rick Rubin, pipe in at several moments.

It's another bit of bad news for Taylor Swift in recent weeks. Maybe Tom Hiddleston didn't know what he was getting himself into.

5 ways Katy Perry is a better human being than either Kim or Taylor.

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The Taylor Swift/Kim Kardashian feud is everything right now. It's exactly like the Tupac/Biggie beef of 1996, only 100% less cool. If you don't know what's going on in this celebrity feud, congratulations—you have a life. And if you're commenting snake emojis on Taylor Swift's Instagram, seek help.

But if you're still figuring out who to align yourself with in this feud, the answer is clear. (It's Britney Spears, but she's not even remotely involved, so let's go with Katy Perry.) Katy is kind of the third wheel in this drama (having her own Bad Blood with Taylor), but you know she's loving every minute of this Taylor take-down from afar.

Holler if you need any gasoline for this fire.

Here are 5 reasons Katy Perry is so much better than Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift.

1. Katy Perry is more subtle with her social media disses.

Kim slammed Tay with a serpent subtweet.

Taylor left an Instagram cry for help.

That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim posts it on the Internet.

A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on

Katy said it all with a hif (Hillary-gif).


2. Katy parties like she's got nothing to prove.

Kim parties by looking at her reflection.

Kendall & I had some fun last night, see it all on the snap! Follow me on snapchat @kimkardashian

A video posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on

Taylor parties by holding Ryan Reynolds hostage at a snuggle party.

🇺🇸

A photo posted by Britany LaManna (@britmaack) on

Katy parties by just chillin'.


3. Katy loves America better.

Kim shows her American pride with emojis.

Have you guys been using the new 4th of July Kimoji's?

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on

Taylor shows her American pride with her #squadgoals.

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A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on

Katy shows her American pride by trying to get people to vote.


4. Katy is better at celebrity PDA.

Kim's PDA with Kanye. Ew no.

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A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on

Hiddleswift PDA = barf in my mouth.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's PDA leaves room for the Holy Ghost. GREAT JOB, GUYS!

we cannes't

A photo posted by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on


5. Katy's got better backup.

Yes, Kim's family has her back, but we all know who Kim's true BFF is:

Shot a fun tutorial today with @makeupbymario using only drug store products on my app! Link in bio

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on

Taylor got some support from Chloë Grace Moretz, who sent a subtweet with a couple of words in ALL CAPS. This provoked an online cat fight with Kim's sister Khloe, so it probably did more harm than good.

Katy Perry was vindicated by Taylor's ex Calvin Harris when he dropped the subtweet heard round the world. Do you remember where you were when this explosive tweet changed all our lives forever?

Clearly Katy Perry is a way better human than Kim or Taylor, but TBH Katy's dog is better than all three of them combined.

and you thought I was gonna take a selfie with it on my lips 🇺🇸

A photo posted by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on

fur ballz 🐶

A photo posted by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on

@adidas

A photo posted by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on

Seriously though, Kim K., T-Swift, and K.P. should all just make up and be friends with each other. They have so much in common—they're all rich, hot, and dumb enough to date John Mayer. (Yes, even Kim went slummin'.)

#neverforget

Facebook decides woman deserves to be banned for posting about her period.

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Today in "Facebook community standards are strangely enforced," an Australian singer was banned for posting about her period, the phenomenon that affects a large percentage of the human population. Singer Melody Pool (hehe, a singer named melody!) was shut out of her account for 24 hours after posting a pretty basic reference to menstruation.

"Does anywhere deliver codeine to you because lady blood moon is waging war upon me," she posted on her private page, not even subjecting her fans to such a devastating image.

Pool believes that it's one of her Facebook "friends" (clearly not a real friend) who reported such a statement.

She explained her anger to News.com.au:

For one, I’m furious that Facebook considers being a woman with a menstrual cycle “inappropriate” but I’m even MORE furious that some conservative misogynist managed to become my friend on Facebook, so now I speak directly to this person — delete me right now. You and your patriarchal mindset are not welcome on my personal Facebook page, you sour old dinosaur. In the words of my beautiful friend Laura, I’m going to keep bleeding and keep being loud!

Pool also suspects that Facebook may have had an issue to the status's reference to codeine, the prescription-only painkiller, rather than just the period.

Either way, Twitter is supporting Pool.

Whoever runs the Justice Department's Twitter forgot they were signed in this morning.

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OK, so you stayed up late watching Stranger Things on Netflix and you're super tired. You get to work and read the headlines about Melania Trump plagiarizing her speech. So you sleepily tweet a joke.

Oh crap, you run the Twitter account for the Justice Department, and you just made the biggest mistake! To make it worse, the Guardian's Alastair Coote caught ya. Oops!

Delete, delete, delete!

Cheer up, it could have been worse, you could have tweeted out a nude.

Filipino makeup artist can transform himself into any of the women from 'Game of Thrones.'

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Filipino makeup artist and tv host Paolo Ballesteros does fantastical makeup transformations that can make him look like any actress, and now he's turned his talents to the female leads of Game of Thrones. These are not merely close approximations; with some of these, he could walk into a Game of Thrones viewing party and be mobbed for autographs. It's almost as if an artist has no name, and can transform himself into anyone in service to The Many-Faced God. To be certain, he can make himself look like the character Arya Stark. But that's just the beginning.

Here are seven of his best transformations, in the light of the Seven and in honor of the Seven Kingdoms:

Maybe this will land Ballesteros a cameo or something, although it will be hard to tell since he'll probably be in disguise.

This new dating app is launching because guys really needed another way to send dick pics.

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Online dating company Zoosk is launching a new dating app called Lively. Lively allows users to create photo and video collages of their lives. This will allow people to get a sense of a potential match's personality and interests by watching a story instead of having to take the time to swipe through a bunch of pictures of them like you do on other apps like Tinder.

It's a pretty cool idea in theory. The one concern is this: How long before creepy dudes start using their Lively stories as yet another way to show off their penises? Is this the future of dick pics?

When you get a dick pic you didn't ask for.

Is the world about to deal with elaborate, multimedia dick stories now? Hopefully not. Only time will tell.


The best reactions to the Trump campaign's statement on Melania's plagiarized speech.

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Like it or not, it seems pretty clear that Melania Trump plagiarized part of the speech she gave Monday night at the Republican National Convention from Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Mrs. The Donald had previously told Matt Lauer that she "wrote it with as little help as possible," which, if that really is the case, doesn't seem like a great idea, because that's why there are actual political speech writers.

Didn't anyone even read it over before she presented it? Other than Mr. The Donald, that is, who clearly was not particularly helpful in the "oh, you're using someone else's words, that's not really a great idea" department.

Tuesday morning, Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort told CNN's Chris Cuomo: "To think that she would do something like that knowing how scrutinized her speech was going to be last night is just really absurd." Yes. It is. But just about everything about Trump's campaign is "really absurd," so this actually makes perfect sense.

Jason Miller, Trump's senior communications advisor, issued the following statement about Melania's speech early Tuesday morning (please, please let the statement also be plagiarized):

In writing her beautiful speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking. Melania’s immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which made it such a success.

Wait—so now Melania had a "team of writers"? Okay, fair enough. Also, Miller's statement doesn't actually address the plagiarism concerns. And what about those fragments that reflected her own thinking? Does he mean "fragments that reflected Michelle Obama's thinking that she really liked"?

Chris Christie also cannot believe that Melania would plagiarize a speech. On Tuesday, he told CNN: "I just don't see it. . . If we're talking about 7% of a speech, that was really, universally considered to be a good performance by Melania. I know her. There's no way that Melania Trump was plagiarizing Michelle Obama's speech."

Sources familiar with the campaign told CNN that Rick Gates, a "top Manafort deputy," oversaw the writing of Melania Trump's speech, but when CNN asked Gates if he'd overseen the project, he replied"Absolutely not." Okay, great. Just as long as everyone's on the same page.

Manafort blames the criticism of Melania's speech on Hilary Clinton. He told CNN: "This is once again an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, she seeks out to demean her and take her down. It's not going to work." Seems odd to blame Clinton when actually it was journalist Jarrett Hill who first pointed out the plagiarism, but this is the Trump campaign, after all.

Anyway, Twitter is having a blast with this statement fiasco, just like they had fun with the revelation that the speech was, at least in part, plagiarized.

It's honestly hard not to feel sort of bad for Mrs. The Donald here. Clearly she didn't write the speech on her own. She probably desperately practiced the speech for days while Trump withheld food and sunlight until she got it just right. And now plagiarism accusations! She never signed up for any of this.

Megyn Kelly is also claiming she was sexually harassed by Roger Ailes.

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First, Gretchen Carlson accused Fox News' Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, and then six more (as yet unnamed) women followed suit. Now, another woman has come forward with her own accusations of Ailes, and it was the one woman everyone was wondering about—Megyn Kelly. Kelly reportedly told investigators that Roger Ailes came on to her at Fox about 10 years ago.

This last bit of news might be the impetus behind Rupert Murdoch and sons James and Lachlan's rush to get Ailes out of the company. Kelly is especially important to Fox ever since her very public squabble with Donald Trump put her in the public eye as a "feminist icon." And with Bill O'Reilly possibly considering retirement, Fox feels she's crucial to the network's future.

Megyn Kelly held back while others were praising Roger Ailes. Some people wondered why.

Sources have toldNew York Magazine that on Monday afternoon, 21st Century Fox's lawyers gave Ailes until August 1 to either resign or be fired. They're still waiting to hear back from Ailes' legal team on the matter. Apparently Ailes has also looked to Donald Trump for strategy advice, so good luck with that.

Until now, Ailes has focused on maligning Kelly in the press. The sources told New York that Ailes' spokesperson Irena Briganti has been smearing Kelly to reporters—saying that her silence while other correspondents (including roughly 12 women) came forward to defend Ailes shows that she's "selfish," and unwilling to standing for someone who gave her her career "opportunities."

Congratulations to Megyn Kelly for deciding to stop being so "selfish," and for coming forward to share information that might also benefit other people. There you go, Ailes and Briganti! Not so selfish now, is she?

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Former hermit Rob Kardashian posts sweet Instagram tribute to his 'babies.'

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Former recluse Rob Kardashian posted a pic of his baby mama and fiancé, Blac Chyna, sporting a baby bump home to the next generation of the Kardashian brand. It isn't often that you can have a legit awwwwww moment with a Kardashian, but today, you can.

My babies so pretty 😍👶🏽

A photo posted by ROBERT KARDASHIAN (@robkardashian) on

Don't worry, we didn't miss that pink track suit, of which we have serious velour envy.

It's their first child (Blac Chyna has another son with Tyga), and clearly Rob is excited, which is great considering the year they've had. While their courtship has marked Rob's return from his self-imposed exile (which most attribute to his weight gain) and an improvement in his health, the two are much less public compared to the Kardashian sisters. They do have a popular joint Snapchat, however.

There's also the awkward reality that Rob's sister Kylie is dating Chyna's ex, Tyga. Based on a other Instagram posts, however, things seem to be fine in the Kyle-Tyga-Chyna-Rob love triangle (love square? Love circle? Whatever).

So happy my girls finally got to talk and make peace! #MyFamily #AllLove

A photo posted by ROBERT KARDASHIAN (@robkardashian) on

Congrats to the parents-to-be. Grandma Kris Jenner is ready to babysit.

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A reporter posted a picture of the near-empty "Women for Trump" event. Trolls refused to believe her.

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Laurie Penny, a contributing editor to the New Statesman, was covering the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and attended a Women for Trump event. It wasn't at the convention center proper, but rather at a nearby downtown mall (because women love malls, right?). While there, however she noticed something missing from a Women for Trump event: women.

As she later wrote in her Medium piece,

By the time the event actually kicked off—half an hour late when it became clear that no, nobody else was showing up—there were, to my count, thirty-five people in the room. That included the six speakers, the organizers, volunteers and press.

Suspicious Trump supporters immediately started questioning her, so she snapped a pic.

It turns out that a picture doesn't speak a thousand words to internet trolls. They continued to challenge Penny. David Crespo screenshot one exchange before @PapaJoe66 could delete his cray town tweets.

To further back Penny up, Guardian reporter Oliver Laughland, who was also in attendance, confirmed her account.

Other writers independently verified this story, such as Jezebel's Anna Merlan and Stassa Edwards, who said there were about 30 people in the room.

Although conservative actress Stacey Dash failed to show, the event was graced by prominent Trump supporters Diamond and Silk. In fact, the whole thing was broadcast on C-SPAN, although cameras did not face the audience.

Laurie Penny summed up her thoughts (and dropped all the mics) on this strange occurrence and the fierce denial she encountered online in her Medium post:

"Trump’s followers may not believe the media, but they are proud to believe a good many impossible things before breakfast—one of which being that a candidate with a track record of populist misogyny and anti-woman rhetoric is popular with American women."

And to that, we say...

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Laverne Cox's nose looked smaller than usual in one picture, so of course people went nuts.

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The perpetually perfect Laverne Cox posted a photo on Instagram in which her nose looked tinier than usual, and people immediately began wondering if the Orange is the New Black star and trans activist had gotten rhinoplasty (aka a nose job).

#selfie #filter magic #TransIsBeautiful

A photo posted by laverne cox (@lavernecox) on

It wasn't a nose job, though—just a Snapchat filter, as Cox was quick to point out.

Her caption reads:

For everyone who thinks I had a nose job, the surgeon is snapchat. The first photo has #nofilter. The second has the #snapchat beauty filter. I try to love, embrace and accept myself everyday, filter or no filter, make up or no makeup, weave or no weave. Filters are fun but they are no substitute for me waking up, looking in the mirror and seeing the unfiltered me as beautiful and worthy of acceptance and love.

Laverne Cox continues to be the most poised and thoughtful celebrity around. And honestly, as a gossip blogger, I take that as a personal affront to my livelihood. But whatever!

5 wedding dresses that were too real for the haters.

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The wedding day is all about the bride (even if she hates it). And while every bride wants to look perfect on her wedding day, it seems like everyone else in the world wants to tear her down out of jealousy and primal territorial rage. Here are five wedding dresses, worn by celebrities and ordinary women alike, that wound up getting serious hate from killjoy trolls.

1. Kate Middleton's royal wedding dress.

Beautiful, but I wouldn't want to jog in it.

The wedding dress Kate Middleton wore on the day she became a princess in 2011 acquired worldwide recognition, and controversy, overnight. Designed by fashion house Alexander McQueen, the gorgeous gown was the subject of a lawsuit by independent designer Christine Kendall, who claimed that the design was copied from sketches she presented to the royal family, but were ultimately rejected. And considering that the dress was rumored to cost roughly 40,000 pounds, this was no small claims dispute.

A full year after the wedding, Kate's gown became the subject of a much dumber controversy among the prickliest of all nerds: Wikipedia editors. At the 2012 Wikimania conference (which must have been a barrel of laughs), Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales cited the fact that the dress had its own Wikipedia article as an example of the website being inclusive to women. Guess how long that lasted.

Is this really historically significant? She's low-born!

As soon as he said so, Wikipedia purists started campaigning for the article to be deleted, claiming it was not significant enough to warrant coverage in an online encyclopedia that has entries for every single Battlestar Galactica character. On the article's talk page, a bitter battle ensued. One editor wrote, "This is frankly trivial, and surely isn't notable enough to be on wikipedia. Request deletion," while another called it, "one of the lowest points ever reached by Wikipedia."

Ultimately, the article remained. But to this day, Wikipedia has a serious case of cooties.


2. Jodie Marsh's strap thingy.

Subtle.

English bodybuilder/model Jodie Marsh wore this revealing wedding number on the red carpet in 2007, as a promotion for her MTV reality show Jodie Marsh: Who'll Take Her up the Aisle? The "dress" was clearly intended to stir up controversy, and that's exactly what it did. To this day, the show's IMDB page features a one-star review entitled "Reinforces my already low opinion of this Vile Woman."

You know you look hot in your wedding dress when someone capitalizes the phrase "Vile Woman."


3. The "dream dress" that was crowdfunded (by the bridesmaids).

Always a bridesmaid getting conned, never a bride pulling the con.

In June 2016, a woman named Hayley went viral with an essay for Mamamia, in which she described her experience being a bridesmaid for the most monstrous of all bridezillas. In addition to requiring constant input from her bridesmaids on various wedding ephemera (including the groom's buttonholes), this bridenstein tasked Hayley with making a spreadsheet of different cake vendors, then threw shade at her when she didn't get it the same day.

But the worst injustice was still to come. As Hayley writes, one day she found an unbelievable email in her inbox:

The latest bridal update was a long email outlining how she and Jase were hugely over their bridal budget now that she’d splurged on the dress. That it was "totally fine if you can’t" but she would really love if we could "pitch in" around $150 each towards her "dream dress." That it’d mean so very much to her and would mean that as she walked down the aisle, she’d be wearing something we’d all had a part in.

Yikes! $150 for someone else's dress? It's bad enough that bridesmaids have to shell out top dollar for their own hideous dress they'll never wear again. When she read that email, Hayley knew that this bridezilla had emerged from her cocoon and completed her metamorphosis to something much worse: the dreaded brideferatu.


4. This woman's dress that got her slut-shamed at a wedding.

This one is a bit of a cheat, because it's not actually a wedding dress. But it was a dress worn at a wedding, it was SUPER real, and the haters REALLY hated it.

Liz Krueger is a 31-year-old fitness instructor from Minnesota. In the summer or 2016, she decided to wear a tight minidress to a wedding because it was supposed to be 90 degrees out. But from the reactions she got from the other guests, it seems like everyone assumed her goal was to be Queen Ho of Promiscuity Mountain.

She wrote that women were giving her side-eye and snide comments all day. One even slapped her ass, explaining that "it was a dare from her friends, bc [Krueger] was a target." All because she wore a moderately revealing piece of formalwear.


5. Beyoncé's wedding dress that even she hated.

This is not Beyoncé's actual wedding dress. She wore this on the BET Awards in 2009. But do you blame us for including the picture?

Beyoncé Knowles and Jay Z married in a private ceremony in April 2008, back when the Beyhive was just a small colony fiercely devoted to their Queen. Bey wore a custom dress designed by her mother Tina, and looked flawless as always.

But as Tina revealed in an interview on the Today show eight years later, the dress wasn't quite flawless enough for her daughter's exacting taste. The elder Knowles said:

She came back later one day and she said, "You know, when my daughter [Blue Ivy] gets married, I’m going to let her pick out her own dress."

That's subtle, but the meaning is clear. That dress was not Bey-approved. In case you have any lingering doubt, Tina confirmed that she got the message:

Maybe she wasn’t so excited about [the dress] at the time, but she’s a sweetheart.

Isn't that nice? Beyoncé is nothing if not a devoted daughter. Actually, that's not true. She's nothing if not a Goddess. But after that, a devoted daughter.

Doctors share the weirdest self-diagnoses their dumb patients ever gave themselves.

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There's a reason we make doctors go to college for seven years, but that doesn't stop patients from thinking they know what their problem is, even if it's physically impossible. Who among us has not thought they'd contracted Ebola or become host to an immaculate conception? These 12 medical professionals have heard it all, and shared it all on Reddit. Here are the craziest medical conditions patients have ever convinced themselves they had:

WebMD: No matter what your symptoms, it's always cancer.

1. ​Tacosplusmeequals had a mother who apparently has never looked at her own tongue.

My mom took my sister and I to the doctor when we were kids because we had weird bumps all over the back of our tongues. We were diagnosed with tastebuds.

2. ​qriousgeorge learned something new about billions of people.

ER doctor here. I had a patient insist she had a fever once and when I pointed out that our thermometer did not record a fever she told me "I'm not sure they taught you this in medical school but when Asians get a fever their temperature doesn't go up."

Yup, I missed that lecture.

3. ​Danimerry's patient answered the eternal question: which came first, the chicken wings or the cravings?

Had a patient come in once due to weight gain that she thought was due to being pregnant. Made sense, except she'd taken more than half a dozen pregnancy tests and they were all negative. She was convinced she was pregnant though, and wanted me to check. I tell her ok, I'll do a blood test, since we can detect pregnancy earlier with that, and she refuses. Says that she just wants to pee on the stick in front of me and have me read it. So I say sure, and lo and behold, it's negative.

Little more questioning, and it turns out she'd been eating literally nothing but chicken wings for weeks. When I asked her why in the world she would do that, she replied that she just really liked chicken wings.

In her defense, chicken wings are effing delicious.

4. The appropriately-named redditor ​"allergist" had a patient who thought she had really slow-acting STDs.

I had a patient a few weeks ago who was in her late 80's come in worried about having a sexually transmitted disease. She goes on to tell me that she hasn't had sex since her husband died.

In 1994.

I am an allergist.

5. ​pharmaSEEE regularly has patients who think they have a disease you definitely don't want to look up on Google.

Pharmacist here. I've had more than one patient run to me screaming that they looked up their rash on WebMd and must have Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

Actual diagnosis: contact dermatitis from laundry soap.

Edit: if you begin taking any medication (especially lamotrigine, Bactrim, or carbamazepine) and develop a rash, then yes you should call your doctor immediately.

6. ​Kingofclean had a patient who did actually have a fascinating disease, but merely a psychological one.

ER and family practice mid-level here. Had someone come in one day saying they had wires and fibers under their skin, including a little ziplock bag of (you guessed it) wires and fibers that they had pulled out, he said with a needle. Now, this is Morgellon's, a well known psychological entity, but to see it so blatantly like you read about in the text books just blew me away. He actually believed it. Very unsettling.

Pretty Sure Arnold Schwarzenegger has had half of these illnesses.

In reality, Morgellon's is a psychosomatic disorder where patients are convinced they have (you guessed it) wires and fibers under their skin. They also typically collect these and bring them to doctors. According to Wikipedia (yes we realize we're teasing people about WebMD and then researching Wikipedia), the fibers patients bring in are usually cotton, perhaps loose threads from shirts.

7. Hoax13 had a patient who wouldn't know she had a baby if it was screaming in front of her.

Not a doctor, but work in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. One night we were called to Labor and delivery for a preterm delivery. NotAMom called 911 because her stomach hurt alot and she thought she was dying. At the hospital ER it was confirmed she was pregnant and in labor. The whole time we were there she kept saying she was dying and why wouldn't we help her. OB key telling her she was in labor and to push each time she felt pain. She kept yelling "It's just gas! I've had gas for a while, but it won't come out because I'm dying!" Fast-forward to baby coming out. OB hands the baby to the nurse who then shows NotAMom her baby. NotAMom says "That's not mine! I have gas!" Nurse places the baby on her chest and says "Well, here's your gas. It's a boy!"

8. ​HotSauceIsBest found out even pets can get misdiagnosed.

Vet student here. I've had some dude with a super aggressive dog diagnose the poor thing with "neural instability" (causing his aggression) from an online consultation with a homeopathic shaman. He then came into the clinic with instructions from the shaman that he wanted the vet to carry out (including rubbing the dog all over with a $200 "healing stone"), despite the fact that the vet had obviously the more reasonable explanation.

He didn't want to believe leaving a dog in the backyard without much human/animal interaction for most of its life could cause aggression. Go figure.

9. ​BPSteve had to work on symptoms from memory.

I work in physical therapy, and once had a guy with dementia say "I know I'm in pain...but I just can't remember where". I felt bad for laughing about it later but I had never heard something like that

10. ​BuzzLiteBeers shows why sometimes pronouns can be important.

I had a psychotic patient tell me he was pregnant.

See? (It's not a tumor.)

11. ​traumaprotocol had a psychotic patient that made his problems seem a lot cuter than they were.

Psychotic patient tried to convince me he had "Kittens playing inside (his) chest".

Not so much. The atrial fibrillation and palpitations were real, though.

12. One former patient, FerrisTM, chimed in to remind people that sometimes the brain just really, really, really believes things that aren't true.

I'm not a doctor, but I've been the crazy patient. Earlier this year I had a conversion disorder, which, for those who don't know, is when a person "develops" a disease and presents symptoms, but the whole thing is actually taking place in their heads and they're fine. Within several weeks, I systematically lost my ability to walk and was terrified. I saw a series of doctors, and they theorized everything from MS to ALS, so I was pretty sure I was dying. I ended up in a hospital, but by this time I was starting to doubt myself. My reflexes, MRI, and other tests had all come back normal, and I could do things like jump, but not walk. Finally, my first night in the hospital, I spent several hours convincing myself that I was making it all up and that my family and loved ones would forgive me if I just made it all go away, and that it would be okay. So, I got up to go to the bathroom...and was fine. This experience still haunts me as the single most embarrassing and humiliating thing that I have ever done, even though I thought that it was real. Even though it was months and months ago, I feel terribly on a daily basis for scaring my family and friends, and for wasting so many doctors' time. I'm glad that I discharged myself from the hospital before they had the opportunity to run anymore tests.

Tl;DR: Not a doctor, but once wasted countless doctors' time and resources after inexplicably convincing myself that I was losing the ability to walk.

Bonus: Lazoord has the most terrifying story of all... one where the patient was right. (Pericarditis is an inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart.)

Paramedic here, technically not a doctor but here goes. Walked in the door to a young male with chest pain. As I walked up to him and introduced myself, he said "I have pericarditis". I felt like telling him, "umm not sure how you would know if you did, but we'll run some tests and see what we have." Put an ecg on, took him to the hospital for more tests. We found out the final diagnosis by the hospital staff was, surprise surprise, pericarditis. So there you have it, the patient was right. I still have absolutely no idea how this kid knew that.

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