While Lip Sync Battle battle alum Shaquille O'Neal wasn't on the show's All-Star extravaganza Sunday night, that didn't stop him from putting on his own production of Kanye West's "Fade."
While he doesn't go all out and turn into a cat surrounded by sheep like Taylor does, Shaq gets into the choreography, doing his best grind, sans baby oil.
Or to boil it down into one GIF:
Tina-Marie Beznec, a 26-year-old with a hormonal disorder called polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is raising awareness with a viral Facebook post, complete with some eye-catching photos and a perfectly written appeal for everyone to "NOT JUDGE," full stop.
Asking popular "mommy blogger" Constance Hall to share her post, Beznec writes:
Hi my name is Tina and I have Polycystic ovary syndrome. As well as depression, anxiety, infertility, weight gain, hormonal imbalances, bloating, abdominal pains, acne, cysts, increased risk of cancer and everything else, a lot of woman including myself have to deal with facial hair!
Do you know how UNFEMININE this can make a woman feel?!? I've always been super self conscious about it, but really just have to put this out there because I want create more awareness around this syndrome and how much it can impact someone's life especially if they don't know they have it.
Hall shared her post, of course, and now thousands have no choice but to internalize Beznec's message and ACT ON IT (as Beznec herself might write, with her charming penchant for hitting caps-lock on the most important parts of her speech.)
Beznec continued:
When you see someone who is overweight, has bald patches, or a woman who has facial hair DO NOT JUDGE
You never know what a person is going through and it's unfair to put someone into the "lazy and unhealthy" category without knowing their story. I know it's only natural for some of us to judge someone based on how they look but remember we are all fighting our own battles and you can never understand if you aren't willing to learn and listen..
Beznec's own blog may not have as many followers as Hall's, but Fight against Fat is a great place to visit if you care about body positivity and healthy living.
Check it out, and definitely DO NOT JUDGE.
Here's an Internet fairy tale: A 25-year-old girl fell in love wth the man of her dreams, got engaged, and recently became pregnant with her first child. Everything seemed perfect, until she discovered her future father-in-law had Facebook... when he used it to send her a pic of his wiener.
Here's the story she posted to reddit in a desperate plea for advice:
I have been dating Buck for 4 years now we met in college, really amazing guy, good looking. His sisters and mother have been really welcoming and really welcomed me. I am pregnant with our first child. We both have our dream jobs and everything is fine apart from his father.
Dun Dun Dun.......!
Hi father and mother are divorced and he lives on the other side of the country in New York with his new wife...this was my first time meeting him in person. He seemed really cold and to the point.
We exchanged details just to you know, stay in contact because he is my fiance father. [They] are not close like he is to the rest of the family... They just don't seem to really like each other.
And here's why, probably.
Overnight, I got a message on Facebook from him and it was a picture of him holding his dick, one flaccid and one erect. With the words after it "You Like red?" I have red hair so that's why he called me that.
WTF?! This is the kind of before-and-after shot nightmares are made of. Did Buck's dad misinterpret that famous quote about marriage to be "You're not losing a son, you're gaining a new chick to send pics of your wiener to?"
This is wack on so many levels that the poor girl posted this story mid-trauma.
Buck is still sleeping and I am not sure how to address this with him and my friends will just cause a huge fucking drama, like they always do. I just need some advice please.
As you may have guessed, the Internet was not shy in handing out that advice. Here's the best and most succinct, from reddit's MdmeLibrarian.
And that's the last we've heard from her! Maybe she is unable to type after spending the last couple hours washing her eyes out with bleach. Perhaps she disconnected from the Internet in order to prohibit any other genitals from being sent to her? We promise to keep an eye on this thread to update if anything else "pops up."
Yoko Ono—a woman who saw her husband murdered in front of her and yet is still hated for the false idea that she broke up The Beatles—is still a working artist and musician at the age of 83. She's currently working on a mysterious project for Iceland's Reykjavík Art Museum that, if you are a woman, you can contribute to.
Says the English language version of the call for submissions, posted on Facebook:
ARISING
A CALL
WOMEN OF ALL AGES, FROM ALL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: YOU ARE INVITED TO SEND A TESTAMENT OF HARM DONE TO YOU FOR BEING A WOMAN.
WRITE YOUR TESTAMENT IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE,
IN YOUR OWN WORDS, AND WRITE HOWEVER OPENLY YOU WISH. YOU MAY SIGN YOUR FIRST NAME IF YOU WISH, BUT DO NOT GIVE YOUR FULL NAME.
SEND A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOUR EYES.
THE TESTAMENTS OF HARM AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR EYES WILL BE EXHIBITED IN MY INSTALLATION ARISING, OCTOBER 7, 2016 – FEBRUARY 5 2017, AT REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM.
I VERY MUCH HOPE FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION.
yoko ono
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
Arising is an ongoing project and it will always be possible to add testaments. Bring your testaments and photographs of your eyes in person, send them by mail to Arising, Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Tryggvagata 17, 101 Reykjavík or send them by email to: arising@reykjavik.is
Hmm. Wonder what her son thinks of this project.
Britney Spears is apparently teaching dance classes to some very lucky girls in Las Vegas, and she really could not be more perfect for the job.
Her moves seem to incorporate some yoga (upward and downward dog, at least) in this video, one of three the pop star posted to Instagram on Saturday. That's Galantis' "No Money" playing in the background.
In the caption of one video, where she's teaching the girls a dance to Madonna's "Secret" (classic), she wrote: "Teaching these little ones dance brings me so much joy. It's so refreshing being with children. You're reminded of the UNKNOWN once again... let's all keep learning."
How fun does that look? You know you want to join in!
In the age of Pinterest, more and more mothers are getting crafty with aspects of their pregnancy that used to be taboo. Placenta pills, IVF hearts, baby bump dioramas—with all these innovations, nobody should be surprised that women have started making art with their umbilical cords.
Umbilical cord art is real, and it's taking Instagram by storm. Here's how it works: you arrange the cord in whatever shape you want immediately after birth, while it's still soft. Then, you bake it at a low heat until it's hard, dry, and ready to treasure as a family heirloom in the most literal sense.
Of course, not everyone is into this trend. Many men and women would rather allow the delivery room doctors and nurses to throw the cord in a medical waste bin, as tradition (and some local regulations) dictates. Also, they find the idea of preserving the umbilicus icky.
Take a look at some of these crafty flesh tubes and decide for yourself:
Remember that the finished product will be less bloody.
The media circus surrounding Hillary Clinton needing a sick day has gotten even more overheated than she did at the 9/11 Memorial. Trump fans are latching on to Hillary's pneumonia—not because they're worried about her well-being, but because her untimely demise is the Trump campaign's last, best hope.
But does Hillary's susceptibility to common illnesses make her less presidential? As it turns out, many great presidents also had human bodies and also got sick. That's not even counting the great presidents with lifelong afflictions, like FDR, who had polio, or JFK, who had Addison's disease. Here are some presidents who got sick, and yet somehow still managed to be president.
Bush Sr. went and hurled chunks on Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi at a state dinner. Somehow, this gross gaffe on Bush's part didn't spark World War III, or even a hiccup in trade relations. The incident was blamed on bad sushi and everyone moved on.
Republicans were skeptical that Obama was even eligible to serve, despite being born in the United States. Imagine how angry they'd have been if they'd known he was susceptible to the common cold.
If Ford were a Democrat running for office today, conspiracy theorists would look to his clumsiness as proof his brain had completely atrophied, and he was being powered by electrodes hooked up to major muscles, like a dead Pinocchio.
Taft, the biggest president in American History (physically), suffered from sleep apnea. He hardly ever got a good night's sleep. While he was often poorly rested and once got stuck in a bathtub, he still managed to govern the United States. He was also the colonial governor of the Philippines and Cuba, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. WITH SLEEP APNEA.
An occupational hazard, Clinton often got (and still gets) laryngitis on the campaign trail after making so many damn speeches. It just goes to show that both Clintons are actually human, rather than Lizard People as many assume.
In July 1952, President Truman caught both the flu and strep throat. His doctor, Dr. Wallace Graham, famously wrote that the Tru Man "was very acutely ill" with a fever but "wishes only to return to his desk." He did.
Presidents get sick from time to time, just like all the other humans with jobs out there. Except for Donald Trump, whose human Quaalude of a doctor assures us he is perfect.
I'm only 26 years old, and already I'm not aging as well as actress and model Elizabeth Hurley. Just check out this lovely photo from her teenage years, in which she looks extremely British:
And here is Ms. Hurley in 1999:
And here she is two days ago:
Elizabeth Hurley is 51-years-old according to her publicly available records, and probably actually an immortal warrior who travels the world beheading her foes in anticipation of the final battle. That, or she gets good sleep.
Perplexed as to why people in the Italian town of Acciaroli town tend to live 10 years longer than most people, researchers from San Diego School of Medicine and Sapienza University in Rome spent six months studying the lifestyles 80 elderly residents. Eventually, they concluded that the explanation was the (how you say?) constant boning.
Cardiologist Alan S. Maisel told the Daily Mail...
Sexual activity among the elderly appears to be rampant... Maybe living long has something to do with that. It's probably the good air and the joie de vivre.
Researchers also came up with other theories, like the Mediterranean diet popular among residents, but let's be real: crediting sex with their continued existence is way more fun.
Sex among older people is often not discussed, but studies show that they're getting down quite a bit. A study among British people between the ages of 50 and 90 showed that they're doing the dirty on average twice a month.
But seriously, is this really a surprise? Didn't we learn anything from Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls?
Nothing cuts the blow of losing your job quite like a hastily-prepared goodbye cake. Just kidding, that sucks, but it does help when that cake is a giant "eff you" to the company that laid you off. This woman who recently was laid off from her human resources job got a cake of "eff you (company)" variety from her co-workers, and it is glorious.
In a Reddit post, the woman explained that she was fired when her company dissolved the HR department. (Because firing HR never has unforeseen consequences). She and her co-workers were not pleased, especially when the company tried to "celebrate" her departure with cupcakes. She wrote:
The full story is that the director brought in cupcakes for my "goodbye celebration" after the holiday weekend - which We all thought was a shit bag move. So my friends did this on my last day. They also took me out to lunch. They are good people.
This cake struck a nerve with the internet apparently—the photo has been viewed more than a million times, with hundreds of people leaving their own supportive messages and sharing their own insulting layoff experiences.
The lesson here is to be nice to your co-workers. You never know when you might need them to tell your company "fuck you" with a giant cake.
As Ryan Lochte danced on tonight's live episode of Dancing With The Stars, protestors suddenly tried to rush the stage.
Security stopped and detained them, so no harm done. Twitter lit up with shock, confusion and quips. These are the 21 best reactions!
If you've heard Lady Gaga's new single "Perfect Illusion," you've probably assumed it was about her breakup with ex-fiancé Taylor Kinney. Guess what? You're wrong.
She told Andy Cohen on SiriusXM...
I love Taylor so, so much and this song is not a, you know, hit out against Taylor. He’s my best friend... his song is just about, I’m sure not only feelings that I’ve had but that he’s had, that my friends have had, that, you know, my sister has in her relationship... It’s a record about all of us, you know? And I would never use my song or want to use the public to hurt anyone that I love so much.
So it's about all of us? We had no idea Miss Gaga held us in such high esteem.
Cohen asked if Gaga pulled a Gwyneth Paltrow and consciously uncoupled. She shot that down, too.
I don’t know if I would even say it that way... I don’t think we’ve, like, un-anything. We’re, you know, just two people figuring it out.
Listen to the clip below:
Amy Schumer and her boyfriend, Ben Hanisch, shared a romantic trip to Paris, seeing sights like the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles, and the hospital.
Both Schumer and Hanisch had a bad encounter with French cuisine, but didn't lose their joie de vivre.
The food rebelled so much against Schumer's system that she ended up in the hospital with an IV.
"Thanks for everything Paris! Except the food poisoning," she wrote, as the two were lying in bed (but not in a fun way).
Still on call as a comedian, Schumer did some bits from her hospital bed, making an old-school style dating video, "grabbing life by its horns."
The two ultimately got better, as Schumer tried to ingest some bland chicken broth by the anything-but-bland view.
Ah, Paris. City of love, light, and listeria.
Sources from behind the scenes of Rob & Chyna, the "reality" show featuring Blac Chyna and her fiancé Rob Kardashian, are calling out the show's producers for making it look like there was any doubt on the part of Chyna about the identity of her not-yet-born baby's father.
These sources told TMZ the production team put together a teaser trailer for an upcoming episode in which scenes and quotes are taken out of context and presented in a misleading way. Oh, really?
Sources from the show's production team reportedly told TMZ that the needle in Chyna's arm was for a routine a blood test, not a paternity test, and that Chyna has no doubt that Kardashian is definitely the father.
The same sources also added that the pregnancy was absolutely planned, even though the couple hadn't been dating long. Hmm, these "sources" are really worried about making sure that paternity rumors don't get started. Almost…suspiciously worried. Almost as if they are actually Blac Chyna herself.
Also, while Chyna apparently did oncetell Kardashian she wasn't sure he was the father, it was just "to get under his skin because she was pissed off at him." See? Just a bit of playing around with the emotions of someone you love, no big deal.
It used to be that owning a home was the American dream. Now it's like the American dream on, often out of reach for many Americans. HSH.com put together a list of how much you'll need to earn in order to live in some of the major metropolitan areas in the United States. We listed the top five highest and lowest rated cities and the annual incomes required to live in them. Prepare to be depressed—and like, never afford a home in California.
HSH.com says they got their results by using...
... the National Association of Realtors’ 2016 second-quarter data for median-home prices and HSH.com’s 2016 second-quarter average interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages to determine how much of your salary it would take to afford the base cost of owning a home -- the principal, interest, taxes and insurance -- in 27 metro areas.
Top 5 Cities with the Highest Incomes Needed to Own a Home
Annual Income: $161,947.60
Average Home Price: $885,600
Annual Income: $109,440.97
Average Home Price: $589,900
Annual Income: $92,091.89
Average Home Price: $480,000
Annual Income: $87,556.61
Average Home Price: $435,800
Annual Income: $86,215.44
Average Home Price: $395,400
Top 5 Cities with the Lowest Incomes Needed to Own a Home
Annual Income: $32,390.09
Average Home Price: $140,500
Annual Income: $34,433.95
Average Home Price: $138,100
Annual Income: $37,179.18
Average Home Price: $160,600
Annual Income: $38,131.22
Average Home Price: $170,300
Annual Income: $38,541.83
Average Home Price: $164,200
Josh Gibson, a husband and father of a 2-year-old girl, was in a near-fatal car accident when his car flipped over on a busy highway in Orem, Utah. It was not a laughing matter—until Facebook made it one.
If you have your photos connected to your Facebook, you may have noticed a new feature that compiles all the pictures you took from one day into a slideshow, complete with snappy music and adorable little graphics. It's a great tool if you are going to a party, wedding or hanging out with friends, but is totally inappropriate for when you are, say, taking pictures at the scene of a horrible accident that you might need to show your lawyer later.
As serious as a car accident is, there is something very funny about quirky little graphics swirling around a shattered windshield as some royalty-free light scatting plays in the background. Nothing says you narrowly escaped death like "Zee-bow-doo-wah-doo-wop-dobeee-da-deeeeeeee!"
Luckily, no one involved with the accident is seriously injured. And thanks to this adorable video, Gibson can now look back at that day he was nearly killed and think, "Aw. Good times."
A woman named Kaylin Maree Schimpf feels passionately about moms being photographed. So passionately that she posted an open letter on Facebook urging husbands/dads to take more pictures. She pointed out that moms are too often the ones in the family behind the camera, which means they don't get to be in the shot (unless they have a selfie stick, hey!).
Dear men.... take the photo...
It doesn't matter what she looks like, or if she tells you no, take the photo. You may not think about it often, or at all honestly. But how many photos does she capture of you, of your family and of your life you've built. But when she is gone, those photos won't show your children the women who was behind the camera.
Take the photo. Messy hair, no make up or a dirty old t-shirt won't matter to your children when she is gone someday. What will matter is that you loved what you saw enough to take a photo, to document it, to preserve that moment in time of the woman you love. No woman wants to look back at a lifetime of selfies. Do what she does for you every day, and snap a few moments in time.
Be proud. Take photos of her. Before kids and after.
Just take the photo....
It's good advice, for the most part. It's good to remember to capture memories. So hetero dudes, if this scenario applies to you, this is good advice! Don't forget to take pics. And more importantly, don't forget to upload them to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr, and group texts. Because that's the whole point of pictures, tbh.
But one addendum to the letter: if a woman says "no" to a photo, you really should listen to her. Even better, listen to women in general. When they say "no." And especially when they say "stop taking my picture and help me change this diaper you &^%*%$ idiot!!!!!"
Some moments are meant to be forgotten.
❤️, May
