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Terrifying new reality show will 'allow' rape and murder in the Siberian wilderness.

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Russia just keeps giving and giving.Coming in 2017 from the country that won our election is Game 2: Winter: the terrifying, life-threatening reality show nobody asked for, and everyone will probably watch.

The show, which will allegedly be streaming online 24/7, will place 30 contestants in the -40F Siberian wilderness for nine months, The Guardian reports. They lost me at -40F, but there's more: they will live amongst bears, wolves and, most dangerously, other reality show contestants competing for $1.6 million dollars.

The losers, technically, could be raped, maimed or killed.

“Each contestant gives consent that they could be maimed, even killed,” reads an advertisement for the show (yes, they are using this information to SELL the show). “2000 cameras, 900 hectares and 30 lives. Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything.”

But let's not go crazy, there will be some limits. While murder is "allowed" under the terms of the show, it is not actually allowed in Russia (I was surprised, too). And according to the rules: “You must understand that the police will come and take you away [if you commit a crime]. We are on the territory of Russia, and obey the laws of the Russian Federation.”

An investigation by Snopes.com, a site that looks into online rumors, says that news reports seem to be vastly overstating the extent to which crimes will be "allowed" on the show. So, there's that.

The show will be filmed by 2,000 cameras placed around the area, as well as personal cameras given to each contestant. Willing participants must be 18 years of age and “mentally sane” to compete, which seems like it would rule out anyone who applies. But, okay.

Also: no guns will be allowed. But contestants can carry knives.

And we all thought the scariest Russia-backed reality show was America's current democracy! Well, it still is.


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'King of Revenge' humiliates KKK members protesting a taco truck.

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Remember the Idaho man who got sweet payback against a couple that left dog shit on his lawn a couple months ago? He's nabbed himself another piece of vigilante justice, this time against the KKK, earning the deserved title "King of Revenge."

Here's the story, in baldandoldinIdaho's own words, of how his beautiful resort town became plagued by Aryan white supremacists.

Five or six of them decide that what really needed to be protested was a Mexican food truck on one of the major routes here in town. They don their robes and pointy caps, black instead of white for some reason, and gather between the truck and the street with their signs and witty protest chants, probably related to stealing our jobs or some such crap. Now my mother was Hispanic which means, well, I am too so I feel a certain protective connection with them plus who doesn't love Mexican food truck burritos.

Nobody. The answer is nobody in their right mind doesn't love Mexican food truck burritos.

This is where our narrator makes a really great case for investing in a Chevy Suburban with over size tires.

I'm heading along, opposite side of the road, when I spot them. Fate was on my side as it had just gotten warm enough to melt the significant amount of snow that we had into a combination of freezing water and slush that filled both curbs on the road. I lay on the horn as I'm approaching them, they probably thought it was in support of their righteous cause because all of them turn towards the road to wave to me. Oh but no this wasn't support, this was my clever ploy to get them all facing the road. A slight veer to the right, about six inches from the curb, a little gas and game over.

The results were more than I could have hoped for. It looked like something out of a cartoon. The slush and water arched over the curb in a solid sheet like some sort of justice tsunami and hit all of them right at face level. I can't emphasize how much water we are talking about here either. I chose the word tsunami for a reason. Pointy hats were blown off, robes were soaked, idiots had had their monthly bath and I had a stupidly huge grin on my face.

Well according to the truck owner as we spoke later that day the protest was over after a lot of swearing, some crying and multiple threats. The owner knew my truck, had seen the entire thing and the rest of their season my money was no good there. It only made the burritos that more delicious.

Hats off to you, King of Revenge. Literally.

Dr. Pimple Popper has begun counting down her top 10 cysts of 2016, and these are some good'uns.

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A new year means new pops from Dr. Pimple Popper, but first she's rounding up all her best squeezes of 2016. She's already collected her top punch removals, and now she's digging into her top ten cysts of the year. This first video covers numbers 8-10, but even these babies are awesome. Let's take a trip down memory lane with these sticky, oozingly satisfying pops.

We'll be sure to bring you parts two and three and soon as they're uploaded. I'm on the edge of my seat.

This adorable interactive video of Mark Zuckerberg's baby learning to walk is the future.

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Mark Zuckerberg, the king of Facebook, shared a video of his one-year-old daughter, Max, as she's learning to walk. And it's nothing at all like the shaky, grainy home videos our parents took of us as kids, with grandma smoking in the background (just me?).

Because this is Mark Zuckerberg, his "home video" is a super high-tech, cinematic masterpiece.

It's also interactive! So in addition to seeing his adorable one-year-old take some of her first steps, you get a full 360° view of a room in Zuckerberg's house, including a beautiful view and his WALKING RUG (turns out it's actually a dog).

This video might may cause jealousy, but watch anyway (there's still time for you to become a billionaire tech mogul, too):

When I was a baby and took my first steps, my mom wrote the date in a baby book. When my sister's children took their first steps, she recorded it with photos and videos. When Max started walking, I wanted to capture the whole scene with a 360 video so our friends and family can feel like they're right there with us. Here it is!

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, December 16, 2016

“When I was a baby and took my first steps, my mom wrote the date in a baby book. When my sister [Randi Zuckerberg]’s children took their first steps, she recorded it with photos and videos,” wrote Zuckerberg in an accompanying post. “When Max started walking, I wanted to capture the whole scene with a 360 video so our friends and family can feel like they’re right there with us.”

Naturally! And when Max has her own kid, one day, we'll get to watch her baby's first steps projected onto the backs of our eyelids, from our little pods in space. I can't wait!

Amber Rose can't stay off social media because of her very hot boyfriend.

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Apparently Amber Rose has been trying to stay off social media. What an honorable and good ambition. But there's something sabotaging the model's plans: her very hot boyfriend, Val Chmerkovskiy and his "hot ass pictures."

According to People, last night she reposted this headshot of her new boo, a pro dancer she met on the set of Dancing With The Stars, with the caption, "When you said you were going to stay off social media until the New Year but Bae keeps posting hot ass pictures."

Do you ever hear somebody else's problems and think that you'd really like to have them? Usually when I take a break from social media it's because too many of my peers are having babies, getting married or deciding to have bad opinions. Having a boyfriend whose body and face refuse to quit is a much better reason to be stuck scrolling. (Though honestly if he is her boyfriend maybe she could also just call him up and see him IRL? I don't know, just a thought.)

Judging by Rose's posting habits going cold turkey on social media probably would have been tough. In just the past 24 hours alone she's posted six photos on Instagram. Where can I get me some of that confidence? That confirms it, folks: It's Amber Rose's world, and we all just livin' in it.

Hire these contractors with voices of angels to build your house while singing you Christmas carols.

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They're called "The Singing Contractors." Josh Arnett and Aaron Gray didn't set out to become guys who could croon while installing drywall, but they've made a name for themselves doing just that.

Artnett and Gray, both Indiana residents, met when they were about 13, and grew up together singing in church, People reports. Then, six years ago they started working together as building contractors. To pass the time, they'd sometimes hum or sing songs together, but it wasn't until they recorded a video of them performing "How Great Thou Art" that they went public with it. (Spoiler: they are very good singers!)

"One day I said 'let's put it on Facebook,'" Gray told WGNtv.com. "And [Josh] was like, 'no way', so I did it anyways." Well, once the video went live, it went viral. It now has over 15 million views on Facebook.

You might notice that there's a third guy in there with them, on the left. He's just a random guy who was on the job with them that day, and guess what: yes, he is an incredible singer too. I am not sure what is going on with the contracting world but it seems like all of them have been given the gift of beautiful voices and the ability to harmonize on the spot.

Since The Singing Contractors got their start six years ago, they started to develop their passion a bit more (the passion isn't the contracting part). They'd take requests from fans, and travel to perform at different venues. They've even put out two albums at this point. And now that it's the holiday season, they've started performing requests they're getting for Christmas songs. Here's them doing an unrehearsed (I repeat, unrehearsed) version of "Mary Did You Know":

I mean, what the heck. These guys are amazing. I want to hire them to come to my house, finally hang up some framed prints that have been sitting on my floor for months, and sing me some sweet, sweet carols in their angelic voices. I love their humility, their sense of humor, and their transcendent combination of blue-collar work and artistic beauty. Some people might be wondering if they ever manage to get any work done on the job, when they're so busy perfectly harmonizing in a way that sends chills down your spine, but I don't even care. Singing Contractors for President.

Here's what it takes for Donald Trump to delete a tweet.

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Donald Trump deleted a tweet. I repeat, DONALD TRUMP DELETED A TWEET. For a guy with seemingly no shame, who has said stuff like this:

And this:

It's pretty crazy that a typo is where he draws the line. Early Saturday morning, Trump tweeted that China stole a U.S. research drone out of international waters (which was a day-old news story), and called the act "unpresidented."

Freudian slip, perhaps? Well, what he apparently meant was "unprecedented," which is what the tweet now says:

That's right, a few hours later, Donald Trump deleted his original tweet and republished it, fixing the typo. Apparently lying and whining is something the Trump Team is fine with the President-elect projecting to his millions of followers, but a typo is not. Well, even though the tweet was deleted, plenty of people still managed to take notice and have some fun. Here are some good ones:


People can't get over this Superman comic about Lois Lane being black for a day—and Ava DuVernay wants to direct the movie.

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With the holiday season upon us, we're all hoping get the perfect gift from a loved one. David Dennis Jr., journalist and professor, can cross at least one item off his wish list: His wife found a 1970 Superman comic book he'd wanted for years—about Lois Lane magically transforming into a black woman for a day.

It's exactly as incredible as it sounds.

Right off the bat, things are fraught.

Apparently, Lois is after a story—as usual.

But getting it won't be easy.

Even little old blind ladies aren't falling for her illusion.

Some details are especially true to life.

And others are just odd.

Finally, Lois gets woke.

And it keeps going.

The best part? Ava DuVernay—the director who gave us the searing Civil Rights film Selma and is currently in the midst of adapting A Wrinkle in Time for Disney—wants to produce the movie of Lois' race-bending adventure.

If you wanted to top the Marvel Universe's upcoming Black Panther, you could definitely do a lot worse.

These dudes choreographed the bangingest bhangra dance for when you have to shovel snow.

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The Maritime Bhangra Group is a dance crew based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and they've gone viral once or twice by proving that even the cold of the Great White North is no match for their hot Punjabi rhythms. Most recently they created a sizzling routine for that most Canadian of problems—snow shoveling.

OK, maybe they don't actually clear much powder in the course of this performance, but hey, you gotta celebrate once you're done. Just try not to slip on ice.

As more than one YouTube commenter pointed out, these are some pretty "sikh" moves—which is why the video has racked up more than a million views over on Facebook. If you like what you see, the group is asking for donations to a charity battling ALS. If you're local, you can also book these guys for your next bhangra party by emailing Hasmeet Singh at singh@dal.ca. Bhang on, everyone.

Luckiest woman on the planet gets Snoop Dogg as her Secret Santa.

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Every Christmas, Reddit organizes a worldwide Secret Santa gift exchange—officially the biggest gift swap of its kind, with three Guinness records to its name. You may also be aware that among Reddit's celebrity circles, the immaculately chill Snoop Dogg reigns supreme.

There can be only one conclusion to draw from these two facts: Each year, someone gets Snoop as their Secret Santa. This year, it was Erin, known as queenoftitsandwine on the site, who had the unfathomable honor of receiving Christmas swag from the beloved rapper.

"Stuff like this never happens to me, like ever," Erin wrote in an Imgur post. "I got a message from Reddit saying my Santa contacted them and told them my package had been shipped. I joked with my husband about it being a celebrity. ... I need a minute for this to sink in. My head's in the clouds right now!"

With a T-shirt, a mini-drone, a baby powder-scented candle, socks, slippers, and green tea, Erin is going to be sitting pretty well into the new year. Although several commenters were disappointed she didn't get any weed, she pointed out that this was likely for the best, as "Alabama is not a 420-friendly state."

She's also not the only one to be surprised by a gift from a celebrity this week. User Aerrix got a whole heap of presents from none other than Bill Gates, including some video games, movies, slippers, mittens, and a Cajun cookbook. (And this is after her 2015 Secret Santa fell through.)

Reminder to self: Participate in Reddit Secret Santa next year.

Teen's huge reactions to reptiles in zoology class remind us olds what awe and wonder feel like.

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Do you remember what it was like to have your mind blown by something you saw in a high school class? Jalen Brooks sure does—because the 17-year-old senior had a jaw-dropping experience in his zoology course just a week ago.

A herpetologist had come to Brooks' school in Riverside, Illinois, to show off some rare and unusual reptiles. Thankfully, his classmate Jill Lojas was sitting across the room during the presentation and took the chance to film his reactions. Never has someone been this enthralled by animals.

In no time at all, Brooks was a viral star—a meme in the making.

And it's no surprise, really: Brooks' meme game is clearly on point.

This is his own favorite spin on the faces, according to BuzzFeed.

And the good news keeps coming: Brooks is now set to be a basketball star at college next year.

But other people have bigger ideas than continuing education and lasting viral fame. For example, what if Brooks got paired up with late-night TV's favorite animal expert for a nature documentary series?

Could be just the companion piece for Snoop Dogg narrating Planet Earth.

Watch the first-ever footage of a live ghost shark, a deep sea creature that predates the dinosaurs.

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Ghost sharks, also called chimaeras, are rarely seen by humans. In fact, they've never been seen alive before, until now. According to National Geographic, researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have taken the first-ever footage of a live ghost shark in action.

Ghost sharks live so deep in the ocean that we don't know much about them, and typically when they're discovered by researchers they're dead. But they've been swimming around the bottom of the ocean since before the dinosaurs even arrived. They're relatives of sharks and rays that split off from that group about 300 million years ago. (This story is a great reminder of the tiny amount of time humans have roamed this earth, and a great way to have an existential crisis if you're in the mood.)

The finding was actually a bit of dumb luck. "Normally, people probably wouldn’t have been looking around in this area [for the ghost shark]," says Dave Ebert, program director for the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. And in fact, the researchers who discovered the ghost shark were actually geologists and weren't looking for it at all. The footage came from an expedition conducted in 2009, when the institute sent a remotely operated vehicle to conduct dives off the coast of Hawaii and California. When they looked at the footage that was captured, they could tell that the little shark that kept bumping its nose against the camera resembled other species of ghost sharks, but they weren't sure what it was.

Based on research provided from chimaera experts, they think it's a pointy-nosed blue chimaera (Hydrolagus trolli), which are usually found off the coast of New Zealand and Australia. So, not only might this be the first live footage of a chimaera, it's also maybe the first time it's been seen in the Northern Hemisphere. Check out the video and see our prehistoric buddy in action for yourself for the very first time:

This going out hero ditched her heels to wear McDonald's bags for shoes during a night on the town.

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Life's not a sprint, it's a marathon. And that means you've got to prepare yourself for the ups and downs, the moments when you're feeling at your best, and the moments when you say "screw it," take off your heels and instead wear McDonald's bags as shoes.

That's what one lady did on Friday night, when out for "Black Friday," a evening celebrated in Wales on the Friday before Christmas, when the party people go out and get wild (pretty sure we can assume the name relates to getting "black out" drunk). Buzzfeed spoke to the photographer, Matthew Horwood, who managed to catch the woman on camera before she stumbled off into the night.

"Black Friday is when everyone goes ham and drinks a lot," Horwood explained to Buzzfeed. Seems pretty straightforward. Horwood chronicled the evening for Wales Online, where you can view plenty of photos of debauchery. But amongst it all, the bag shoe lady stood out. "Not much surprises me anymore, but that did," he said.

People are finding life and fashion inspiration in our unnamed hero:

And I guess you've got to respect that Welsh people know how to dedicate themselves to the cause of partying. Where is our bag shoes lady now? Did she get into the next club wearing paper on her feet? Did she wake up to find out that her feet had been hamburgers the whole time? Does she know she's started an international fashion trend? I have so many questions for her that will never be answered. I know you're out there Mcdonald's-bags-for-shoes lady. My only hope is that it was all worth it.

22 ideas for unconventional, hilarious, and shocking snowmen that put Frosty to shame.

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Building a snowman is one of those things you remember being fun as a kid—and it was! But building the same, standard, bescarfed and carrot-nosed character every time eventually got old. So maybe—and especially if you read Calvin & Hobbes—you started to get a little more creative.

In all likelihood, though, you've never built anything as delightfully bizarre as the specimens that Imgur user ImADonut has collected. Check out their amazing gallery for inspiration on your next snow sculpture, and hey, if you copy one, we promise not to bust you for snowman plagiarism.

What a pity these all have to melt one day.


What not to wear.

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Casey Affleck does a wicked good Boston jerk in 'SNL' Dunkin' Donuts sketch.

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Man, they really make it hahd to forget that the two Affleck brothers ah Boston boys. Ben had "The Town" and "Good Will Hunting," and now his khed brothah Casey's got that new one, "Manchestah By The Sea." You'd think they'd-ah lost theah dedication to the city now that they's all rich and famous, but those two douche bags like to hang around and make movies about ah shit town. Theah even diehahd Sahx fans, still! And the Sahx really suck these days.

Now, I'm allowed to make fun of Boston because I grew up in New England and lived in in the city for five years. All in all, I spent the first 24 years of my life there. That's wicked long if you think about it. So I had high standards for Saturday's SNL sketch about Dunkin' Donuts. But they really came through and perfectly nailed what a Boston jerk (also known as a Masshole) is like. In doing so, they also captured a brief glimpse at what my family's Thanksgiving and Christmas parties often look like.

With Casey Affleck hosting, you knew that Saturday Night Live was going to do something about his Boston roots. But they somehow managed to write the perfect sketch for Casey, who isn't just from Boston, he's also objectively a jerk. (Not sure if you know, but Casey Affleck was sued twice for sexual harassment in 2010, for incidents that occurred while filming Joaquin Phoenix's mockumentary I’m Still Here.) So, all in all, he was made for the role of a jerk who loves Dunkin' Donuts.

Dunkin' Donuts is a New England chain. You can't throw a styrofoam cup filled with Dunkaccino (that's a concoction that's half coffee, half hot chocolate that my mom used to get me after freezing cold soccer games) without hitting one of the establishments. And the thing about Dunkin' Donuts is that it's cheap and not very good. They don't aim for the same clientele that Starbucks is trying to reach, with their wifi and their green drinks and flat whites. No, Dunkin' is the everyman's coffee shop. It's the type of place that will make you hate yourself for even walking in the door. And then, as you sip your watery, sugary bullshit drink you'll think to yourself, "I deserve this." Their slogan is "America Runs on Dunkin'," which is correct in that America does basically run on self-hatred and bad choices.

If you want to learn a bit more about Boston culture, or maybe you're from Boston and you want to feel at home, watch the parody commercial and see for yourself what a real Masshole looks like. I feel like I know this guy. In fact, he's probably my uncle. And I'll say this: it's way easiah to watch this than gettin' on the pike and bookin' it all the way up ta Bean Town.

Shut-in.

In Run-DMC parody, 'SNL' predicts this could be the last Christmas ever, now that Trump is taking over.

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There are a lot of predictions as to what's going to happen once Trump takes office in 2017, and a lot of complaining about how bad 2016 has been. But perhaps, instead of whining about this year and fearing that 2017 will be even worse, we should focus on the fact that we are closing in on our final weeks with Barack Obama, and should cherish every last moment we have with him. That's what SNL's parody of Run-D.M.C.'s "Christmas in Hollis" is all about.

Keenan Thompson is joined by musical guest Chance The Rapper to take us through the reasons to celebrate our last Christmas with Barack Obama, in the video called "Jingle Barack." For example, the holiday season is a time for counting your blessings, like being able to break your arm and still be covered by Obamacare! Or getting presents on Christmas morning, instead of what the kids might get next year: "a bomb from Iran."

As their refrain about it being the last Christmas while Barack is still here continues to apply to more serious issues, the video becomes a dark meditation on the fact that for many Americans, fear is the predominate emotion about the looming four years under Donald Trump. And yet, the campy, throwback hip hop video aesthetic, creates a divide between the frivolity of the medium and the serious concerns they're expressing. Under the tree, family members are finding "gifts" that are actually basic needs that our country has fought for years to provide to its citizens, like birth control. Meanwhile, two men are getting married that night, because same-sex marriage is under threat once Trump takes over.

In Chance The Rapper's verse, he talks about the things he's stocking up for on Christmas eve, which sound a lot like supplies for a natural disaster preparedness kit: batteries and canned food. Joking that the Trump presidency will be an apocalypse is a funny joke to make, but hearing the message from the black performers featured into the video turns it into something much more impactful. The video is an important acknowledgment that black Americans fear the continued racial profiling and murders of innocent men by police offers, and that Muslims fear that their names will be put on a registry, just to name a few. It's summed up by a wise black father in the sketch who reminds Chance to "never trust a white dude wearing no red hat."

Watching these guys make silly rhymes about really important human rights issues makes you feel as if these fears have already been accepted as the new status quo. It's a warning of what's to come that's dark, funny, campy and arresting. Plus, Leslie Jones comes in and reveals her secret crush to all of us. Watch it here:

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