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'Woke Baby' had the best sign at the Women's March.

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On Saturday, at least 3.3 million people, in over 500 U.S. cities (not to mention the rest of the world) gathered together to protest President Trump in Women's Marches, perhaps the largest demonstration in the history of United States, according to Vox.

That's a hell of a lot of people, and a hell of a lot of signs, a great many of them funny, angry, and inspiring, or all three at once. But there's one sign that's really captured the feeling of the march, and it's this one from the Charlotte, North Carolina march, which has gone viral, with over 11,000 likes and 20,000 shares on Facebook.

My friend just posted the best sign of the day. Credit: Jenny Sowry

Posted by Shawn Lent on Saturday, January 21, 2017

The adorable baby (who has now come to be known as "woke baby, meaning awake not as in "not asleep," but "aware") perched on her father's shoulders belongs to Lent's friend, Jenny Sowry, and her husband Sam (pictured).

Jenny Sowry is the mom of two kids, a 9-year-old son and a 22-month-old daughter. Speaking to BuzzFeed News, Sowry explained that she was talking to her son, who'd recently seen Selma, about the march when he decided to make a sign reading "All people are equal."

Much to Sowry's surprise, though, her little girl took it upon herself to make a sign of her own, reading…well, that's unclear. But what is lacks in language, it makes up for in feeling. It's the thought that counts, right?

Sowry posted the photo to her Facebook wall along with the caption, "#inherownwords #shespeaksforherself." Sowry's friend Shawn Lent shared it, which is when it blew up. Lent told BuzzFeed News,

When I saw my friend’s daughter have the space to express herself and not have a statement forced upon her, I though that is exactly the sort of demonstration we need. Fresh, original, artistic.

Of the viral response to the photo, Sowry said,

The word that keeps coming back to me is "hope." It makes people hopeful that there is already a little one who is already speaking her mind. . . I don’t always know what she’s saying, but she always speaks her mind.


Best of luck to the White House on getting their press releases past Facebook's fake news detector.

Security video captures terrifying moment when chef blinds customer with chili powder.

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Video captured the terrifying moment when a customer at an Indian restaurant was temporarily blinded by a chef who threw a cloud of extremely spicy chili powder directly into his eyes.

"What was meant to be a quick meal out with David turned out to be one of the most frightening times we've had."

David Evans, 46, was out for dinner with his wife Michelle at the Prince of Bengal in Tonypandy, South Wales, when they complained to their waiter that their curry was "tough and rubbery."

The waiter passed that info along to the chef, who apparently could not take the criticism. He came out of the kitchen to personally swear at and berate the couple.

"What was meant to be a quick meal out with David turned out to be one of the most frightening times we've had," Evans wife, Michelle, told the Daily Mail.

The Indian chef came to our table, he was extremely rude and aggressive and accused us of not wanting to pay for our food. We said we would eat the rest of our food but the meat was really not edible.

He started swearing at me, so David said 'there's no need to swear at my wife.'

The chef caused quite a scene and was shouting and swearing so David walked back to the kitchen door with him asking for an apology.

What happens next is the horror shown in the video.

Evans walked into the kitchen, and the chef threw a cloud of chili pepper directly into his face.

My eyes are tearing just looking at this.

He instantly thought he had been blinded and didn't know what he'd thrown at him, he was shaking in shock, hanging on to the counter being sick thinking he was going to go blind.

'It was horrific. He said he's never had so much pain in his life and was extremely distressed. Not one member of staff came to him to help or even ask if he was ok.

'We were in the toilet splashing water on his eyes until the police and ambulance came and he was treated straight away in A&E. '

Once at the hospital, David had drips attached to his eyes to flush out the powder that had also caused burns on his face and chest.

This is like a terrible reverse "Clockwork Orange" situation.

The chef, Chef Kamrul Islam, 46, has been arrested for assault, but is claiming self-defense.

I ran into the kitchen to get away from him but he followed me. He was being very aggressive and pushed past another member of staff.

'I was frightened and grabbed a handfull of chilli just in case I needed to defend myself. Chilli will burn but it is not life threatening.

'I've been running this restaurant for 18 years and I've never had to do anything like this. I'm very upset by it all.'

This isn't the first time a restaurant has tried to turn things around on their customers, but this chef's defense is pretty slim. Throwing the chili powder might not have been life threatening, but doctors say this was a very dangerous situation that would have caused permanent damage has Evans not been rushed to the emergency room.

Did you need another reason not to propose over Kiss Cam?

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A public proposal over Jumbotron is usually a terrible idea, because your partner might say no, and if she doesn't, then you're stuck with the type of person who accepts a Jumbotron proposal.

Or, in the case of two Atlanta Hawks fans on Sunday night, an enthusiastic bystander might knock the ring into the bleachers during a congratulatory back-slap. Skip to 1:04 if you don't want to hear the announcer say "kiss cam!" every time the camera cuts.

Anyway, these things always look pretty faked, like the time Pizza Girl made out with her pizza to mock some lovebirds in the seat below her, or the time that Boston kid went absolutely insane to Bon Jovi.

In this case, the very fast reactions all look staged—but you never do know. The people loved it anyway, and the clip's gone very viral.

The internet is shuddering at Carl Sagan's creepy 1995 prediction that's coming true now.

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In the last few days, a quote from legendary astrophysicist Carl Sagan has gone viral because of how accurately it describes the current political climate in the US—despite the fact that Sagan died in 1996. The quote is from his book Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, originally published in 1995.

Here's the full quote:

Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

Amazingly, these comments were made during the Clinton administration, when the US economy was stronger than it's been at any point since. But Sagan, who became world famous after he hosted the original Cosmos series, was always known as a forward-thinking man. (He could actually see beyond time, through the fourth dimension.)

But as eerie as this quote is, many are pointing out that the rest of the chapter has aged less well. Sagan goes on to use the mid-90s popularity of Beavis and Butt-Head and Dumb and Dumber as evidence of the dumbing-down of America. And those things are awesome.

Imagine if Sagan had lived to see The Bachelor. He would be horrified.

And if you doubt that he was ahead of his time, just listen to this clip of him advocating for the legalization of marijuana with the same arguments that are used today.

Two decades after his death, Carl Sagan remains an inspiring but mystifying figure. What kind of pothead doesn't like Dumb and Dumber?

Mike Pence freaked out a bunch of lawmakers with the creepy nickname he has for his wife.

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A Rolling Stonestory on Vice President Mike Pence carefully highlights his nonsense posturing during the Carrier deal in Indiana, savages his political tendency to ignore any "square peg in round America," and details his longstanding homophobic ideals.

He also calls his wife "mother."

It's one of the odder personal tidbits in a political landscape full of them.

At a governor's mansion dinner with Democratic legislators during Pence's tenure as Indiana governor, Pence attempted to avoid small talk by yelling to his wife, Karen.

"Mother, Mother, who prepared our meal this evening?"

The legislators looked at one another, speaking with their eyes: He just called his wife "Mother."

Maybe it was a joke, the legislator reasoned. But a few minutes later, Pence shouted again.

"Mother, Mother, whose china are we eating on?"

Mother Pence went on a long discourse about where the china was from. A little later, the legislators stumbled out, wondering what was weirder: Pence's inability to make conversation, or calling his wife "Mother" in the second decade of the 21st century.

Twitter was as weirded out as those Democratic legislators.

While everyone's heard a parent refer to the other as "mom" or "dad" in front of the kids,​ it seems a little strange to go with "mother" and to do it at a formal dinner. To understand this phenomenon, I resorted to Google searching the phrase "calling wife mother"—and I found the following, random post on a message board.

Do you call your wife, mother?

I met a couple the other day and they were both in their 60's I guess and the wife kept calling her husband "Daddy" and I said "That's your dad!!??" and everybody started laughing, then I was pretty embarrassed, but I got over it.


Nobody ever explained why...and I have heard other couples, mostly older ones, do this before but I still blurted out that stupid question.

So apparently this is A Thing. And now it's in the White House. It's not the weirdest part of Trump/Pence, but it's certainly something to think about.

15 Obamacare alternatives that are likely to come from the Trump administration (unfortunately).

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Republicans are really jazzed about repealing and replacing Obamacare, also known as The Affordable Care Act, but there is only one problem: they still haven't announced what they are replacing it with. So hold tight, 1.4 million people who depend on Obamacare to literally not die, they've been coming up with something for the last six years, so you know it's going to be good! Here are 15 things that the GOP is plausibly replacing your healthcare with, so make sure you take your vitamins and eat your spinach, because you're not going to want to get sick for at least four years.

1. Trump will personally offer women free mammograms.

But only if you're a 10.

2. New presidential fitness test will include "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps."

You can do it, you're just not trying hard enough.

3. Mike Pence will help you to pray your cancer away.

If that doesn't work, he will shock it out of you.

4. Newt Gingrich will heal you in exchange for a part of your soul.

He survives by feeding off the souls of the living.

5. Stay fit with Paul Ryan's workout tape: "Sweatin' to the Old Laws"

Party like it's 1885.

6. Build a wall between those are ill, and make the sick people pay for it.

Keep those germs out.

7. You can borrow money from your father to pay your astronomical out-of-pocket bills.

Bonus: It's another way to screw the children of single mothers!

8. Anyone with mental health issues will be sent a discounted "hang in there baby" kitty poster.

Ugh, this cat is such a snowflake.

9. Trump will add "chasing immigrants" to FitBit exercise counter.

Hold on to your (red) hats!

10. You know, just a good old fashioned leeching.

Not just figuratively.

11. Doctors will offer an "alternative diagnoses" if you don't like what you are diagnosed with.

All doctors trained at the Trump University of Medicine, of course.

12. He will inspire many protest marches that will keep you fit and toned.

Also known as "walking it off."

13. Those with infections encouraged to eat anti-biotic rich Trump steaks.

Suck it, vegans.

14. Mr. Trump requests all urine samples be sent directly to him.

We wonder why.

15. If you die of a pre-existing condition, your bones will be mulched and used in the construction of the wall.

Now that is how you "make America great again."

The new White House press secretary Sean Spicer is in a years-long, one-sided feud with Dippin' Dots.

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Three days into the Trump administration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has already established himself to be one who sits atop a throne of lies, saying that it is okay for the White House to "disagree with the facts." But there is one instance in which Spicer truly showed strength and spoke truth to power.

Since 2010, Spicer has been consistently tweeting his antipathy towards the Dippin' Dots, a worthy target for his ire.

He correctly remembered that he had said this before, but reiterated his point 17 months later.

He gloated when the old DD went bankrupt, though working for Trump, you'd think he'd find bankruptcy to be a good thing.

Despite his animosity towards the tiny spheres, Spicer appeared to be craving some vanilla balls at a Washington Nationals game in 2015. And boy, did he burn them when they were out of vanilla.

You tell 'em, Sean. Make sure they live up to their campaign promises of being "The Ice Cream of the Future."

They stated that as if it's a fact, and facts matter.


Leave as many voicemails for your Congressperson as you leave for your exes when you're drunk.

Here's how the bakery that made Trump's inauguration cake brilliantly trolled him.

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Remember how Trump's inauguration cake was an exact replica of Obama's inauguration cake? Let me refresh your memory. On Friday, the bakery that made Obama's cake in 2013 tweeted this:

The tweet sure seemed like a jab at Trump. But then it turned out the cake was SUPPOSED to be a spitting image of Obama's cake. And everything is cool... kind of.

Buttercream Bakeshop, who were commissioned to make the Trump cake, posted an Instagram on Saturday, explaining that they were hired to make an exact replica of Obama's cake. Then they brilliantly trolled Trump and his homophobic, hate-mongering administration by announcing where all of the proceeds from the cake are going...

The caption reads:

Excited to share the cake we got to make for one of last night's inaugural balls. While we most love creating original designs, when we are asked to replicate someone else's work we are thrilled when it is a masterpiece like this one. @duff_goldman originally created this for Obama's inauguration 4 years ago and this years committee commissioned us to re-create it. Best part is all the profits are being donated to @humanrightscampaign, one of our favorite charities who we have loved working with over the years. Because basic human rights are something every man, woman and child~ straight, gay or the rainbow in between~ deserve!

That's correct: 100% of the profits from the cake intended to celebrate the inauguration of a president and vice president with a horrific record on LGBT rights were donated to a pro-LGBT rights group. Now that is a jab.

You can watch Mike Pence and Donald Trump cutting their pro-gay rights cake here:

Ain't that sweet?

Revenge is a dish best served with a side of helping a good cause.

I'm really impressed by the number of alternative facts on your resume.

This middle schooler's revenge against a mean actor is why you should ALWAYS be nice to stage crew.

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It is a known fact that middle schoolers are awful. Take for example this story of a middle school girl who was bullied by a cool kid in her drama club.

The story, posted to reddit by a girl under the username grantchart, tells a disturbing yet familiar tale of classic middle school bullying.

"... is an ugly pig."

This happened when I was in junior high school. We put on a musical, and I was stage and props manager. My mom was super cool and paid for a local place to print up t-shirts with the poster for the play on the front and the names of the cast and crew listed on the back. All of us got one, and we all signed each others' shirts at the cast party.

Among the signatures and encouragements was an anonymous one, much larger than the rest, that read "grantchart is an ugly pig." I didn't notice until the next day, so I spent the entire evening walking around with this hateful thing written on my back.

It didn't take a lot of detective work to track down who had done it. I was pretty sure right away anyway, and apparently he'd bragged about it to several people. That, and the fact that nobody had said anything really really hurt.

What a little punk. Middle school is just so hard. Fortunately, once our insulted stage manager got her confidence back, she set about on enacting her revenge.

Time came for the Spring drama club production, and the asshole scored a major role. During the play, he was supposed to hypnotize other characters on several occasions, using a dangling pocket watch as the "focus."

I got to be stage and props manager again.

"Opening night came, and he got two surprises

Revenge one:

First, each of the major actors had little "bio" paragraphs next to their roles in the "playbill" (the program hand-out for the play). Everyone else's had things like who they were, their class year, what other productions they'd been in, and so on. His had all of that, with a small addition that stated "[asshole's name] is also fond of writing disgusting offensive insults on fellow cast members' crew t-shirts." Because, yeah, the stage manager [me] was also in charge of getting those to the printer.

Totally fair call out. But that was not the end of this middle-schoolers rage.

Revenge two.

Second, he NEVER got his pocket watch prop. He was supposed to pick it up from a small table just off-stage, but it's hard to do that when the stage manager doesn't put it there. So he had to go out in front of the entire audience and hypnotize the other characters with a pocket watch he didn't have. And he was a bit stupid so he didn't think to change his lines to reflect the fact that there was no watch. So instead of maybe wriggling his fingers and saying "focus deeply on my fingers," he just stood there and said "focus deeply on my watch." To make things worse, one of the other actors actually said "what watch?" as an unintentional ad lib line. The audience laughed like crazy, and I could see him turn almost purple in embarrassment.

Ok, yeah, that last part was petty af and ultimately hurt the whole production, but... it's middle school. They'll get over it.

15 people shared the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for them.

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Hey, gang. The past few months have been a little rough. It seems like the whole world is in a constant state of yelling insults at each other. So we thought it'd be nice to remind everyone that kindness is still out there. We asked our readers to send in stories of the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for them, and holy moly, did they deliver. We got a TON of stories about good people finding the kindness in their hearts to help out our readers. We couldn't include all of them, but here are 15 of our favorites.

1. Meagan would've been stuck in the snow without this family of kind strangers.

I got stuck in the snow 10 feet from work, then locked my keys in my car along with my cell phone, wallet, all ID, etc. A family of complete strangers let me use their phone to call AMA, then when they heard that mine had expired let me use their card, saying that they were in the car with me. When AMA told me they couldn't get there for 2+ hours it turned out that one of the family members was a mechanic so they got in to my car and got it unstuck, then gave me some food and got me to work on time. Best people ever and I really wish I had learned their names so I could thank them!

2. This guy saved Brittany from living a lost wallet nightmare.

My wallet was left on top of my car when I got gas and fell off in the road as I drove off. The guy who found it went above and beyond to get it back to me. He called the numbers on the back of every card in there and told them he found my wallet and gave his contact information. Pretty soon I had people calling me from my insurance company, bank, credit cards telling me to let me know!

3. Charlotte from Facebook received the ultimate gift from a stranger.

A total stranger gave me a second chance at life, I will be 14 years post heart transplant in February 2017. It's the single most random act of kindness, ever.

4. This kind stranger helped Jennifer get out of the cold and into work.

I don't have my license to drive, so I rely on my bike to get back and forth to work. It's a mile long stretch of open field on one side, with a wind tunnel forming tank farm for a major oil refinery on the other. Winds can come through there at speeds of 20-30 miles per hour, and it has knocked me over on occasion. In the winter, those winds get bitter and cutting, and it can be very hard to ride against them and not have problems.

During the cold snap of 2015, I was running behind getting out the door, and had gotten about halfway to work, when my bike literally froze solid and wouldn't move. There I stand, in -1 degree weather, with my vehicle frozen to the point that I couldn't even get it to roll to a safe spot to lock it up and leave it. I got a bit upset, being afraid to get a write up for being late, and started to cry (bad idea). My eyes started to freeze together, and I couldn't see, when I heard a car pull up behind me.

A lady had been going the opposite direction when she saw me, stuck on the side of the road, and come back to see if I needed a ride. She had a van that was big enough to haul my bike to my work place, and let me use her phone to call and make sure I wouldn't get in trouble if I was late.

She dropped me off close to the door, helped me unload my bike, and got mad at one of the managers who wasn't going to let me lock my bike up in the foyer so it could thaw out and get me home. After she told him how she'd found me, he let me lock up in a warmer, safer spot, so my bike would be good to ride home when the time came, and then got me a ride home because it was going to be even colder when I got out.

If it hadn't been for this woman, I would have been late and suffering some massive side effects from the cold, only to have to face the whole thing over again at 11:00 at night, while trying to push home a bike whose wheels wouldn't turn. I think about her a lot ever since then, and I hope she's doing well. She really was a lovely person.

5. Will Lori from Facebook's neighbor come to the gym with me?

Well, it's no heart transplant, but I was out for a run the other day and this dude running the other way just randomly shouted "Awesome! You're doing awesome! Keep going!" I hear all these awful stories about women being catcalled or fat-shamed while out running, but here's this dude in my city just telling people they're awesome.

6. Andrea sent in this awesome story of a hair stylist helping people who were down on their luck.

In January of 2009, I got laid off from my job when the economy tanked and we were in the midst of the recession. I was scared, overwhelmed, and unsure of what was ahead of me. I was applying for jobs and hoping to get interviews, when I came across an article about a local hair dresser. She was coming in on her day off, and offering free services to anyone who was out of work. She wanted people to not neglect themselves due to lack of money, and she wanted to make sure that people felt good when they were heading off to interview for new jobs.

I made an appointment, and had the pleasure of meeting this amazing lady. She told me about all the people she had met, and how happy she was to be able to give a little something to those who were down on their luck. I thanked her for her generosity, and she hugged me and told me it was the least she could do.

On a day when I feel like the biggest asshole known to man is turning our country into a dumpster fire, I am choosing to remember that there are people like this in the world. As long as we have people who will step up and help others and choose to be good, I think in the end it will all be ok.

7. Someone was definitely looking out Erin from Facebook and her family.

12 years ago as a single mother of 3, bringing in less than 30k a year, working full time, a stranger periodically left $100 gift cards for groceries, and for the holidays $100 gift cards for toys r us. It was so kind- without that and help from my family ( I was so lucky) we would have been living out of my Saturn.

8. Renee from Facebook had a whole flight full of awesome strangers.

When my oldest boys were 1.5 and 3.5, they flew with me to see my family in California. Due to snow delay, we were super late getting to our connection in Denver. Southwest held the plane an hour for us so we wouldn't have to spend the night in the airport. People switched seats so we could all sit together. The man we sat next to let my oldest son sit on his lap by the window and watch them deice the wings, talking to him all the while, and then bought me a glass of wine. And when we landed, and I had no shot of carrying two small sleeping children and three carry on bags, he carried one son, I carried the other, and three people sitting around us stayed behind to carry our bags. A whole group of wonderful, lovely people escorted us to my dad at the gate

9. A reader we only know as BubblegumandTaffy sent in this story of a store manager who made her day easier.

In January of 2013 I was in a really bad car accident and out of work until November of that year. September rolled around, a few days before school was to start and we were out of food, toilet paper, shampoo and conditioner and many other basic needs. I made the tough call of returning the clothes and school supplies I had bought a couple weeks before for my son so we could get through the week until my insurance check came, when I would replace everything. I stood in customer service in tears as I apologized to my son. I felt horrible, like I was the worst person in the world.

I got the money and we went to grab what we needed. Tears still coming. As we made our way to the cashier, the lady who helped us at customer service came and grabbed my son and I and took us back to the returns area. Her manager had heard what was going on. When we got there she started ringing us up for the stuff we were buying, all the clothes and supplies we returned. The manager paid for all of it and gave me $80 in cash. She herself was a struggling single mom at one time and knew how hard it could be.

I have never had so much faith in humanity as I did that day. I'm still thankful for that to this day and pay it forward every chance I get. Rose, if you're reading this, THANK YOU!

10. A homeless man helped out Sierra from Facebook when her car broke down.

One night I was driving and the axel of my car broke. I was stuck in a lane that gets some pretty heavy traffic coming off of the freeway. A homeless man came over to make sure I was ok, and went and without my asking him to found traffic cones to put behind my car so it wouldn't get hit by other drivers.By the time the help I had called showed up, I went to look for the man to thank him, but he had disappeared. He was definitely a kind stranger and a guardian angel for me that day.

11. People looked out for Ali from Facebook when she found herself in a scary situation.

I flew to Spain by myself when I was 20 to meet my then-boyfriend in the military. I had a 3 hour layover in Madrid when a loud BOOM shook the whole building and the glass walls inverted inward (I've never seen anything like it). Turns out a terrorist group detonated a car bomb in the terminal parking garage. They forced everyone to evacuate the airport and all flights were delayed for hours, but rumored to be cancelled. I stood outside in the crowd watching smoke billow from the building with a dead cell phone and no way to reach my family. It was the end of December, and I was wearing sandals (I'm from Florida and smart like that). A woman came up to me and gave me a pair of her slippers to keep my feet warm and told me she'd stay with me until everything got figured out. We ended up meeting a family that let me use a cell phone and even offered to let me stay with them in the event that all flights were cancelled. About 5 hours later, we were allowed back in the airport and I ended up flying out that evening. I'll never forget that woman and the family for looking out for me though!

12. Kids are awesome, especially this boy who helped Tiffany from Facebook load her car up.

This was almost five years ago but it stuck with me: I was 2 days past my due date with my second child, I went grocery shopping and as I came back with a very full cart of groceries it began pouring rain. I was quickly as possible loading the groceries into my car getting drenched because my coat wouldn't close around my huge belly. I then started to try to pick up and load the large cases of water I had at the bottom of the cart. I was struggling for sure and out is the corner of my eye I see a young boy around 12 run up to me (getting very wet in the process) and say
" can I help you put the waters into your car?" Before I could even say yes he had them in the back of my car. I just kept telling him thank you over and over as I quickly went to grab in my purse to give him a few dollars for helping me. He shook his head and just said " oh no ms! My grandpa taught me to help people when they need it, especially ladies!" He then ran back to the car soaking wet and a older gentleman waved at me. The parking lot was full of adults that didn't even look twice to try to help but this kind boy went out of his way to do it and with a smile. I know that boy will grow up to be a great man one day.

13. Vincent might not have super powers, but it's pretty cool that people were so willing to help him push his car.

My car ran out of gas one night. The bright side: I just happened to be about fifty yards from my grandfather's driveway. The down side: it was a slightly uphill fifty yards.

So, I sucked it up, put the car in neutral, got out and began pushing the car along the road by its driver's side door. Periodically, I'd reach in to steer when I found I was veering too far one way or the other. Now, I don't know if you've ever had to push a ton of metal up a hill by yourself while also steering it, but let me say, I do not recommend it.

Cars were zipping by at frightening speeds on the dark road as my legs began to burn from sheer exhaustion. I was twenty yards away, but it was twenty yards too far. I wasn't going to make it. Just as it felt like my legs were about to give out, the car suddenly felt lighter.

"It's finally happening," I thought. "My latent superpowers are activating."

I heard a voice from behind me yell, "Don't worry, we got you!"

I turned around to see that several cars had pulled over and their drivers had rushed to my aid. With ease, we pushed the car the rest of the way to safety. They all then offered their phones in case I didn't have one to call for help.

Kindness is not dead. At least not in southeastern Pennsylvania.

14. Jasmin from Facebook's nice stranger story turned into a love story.

A nice stranger stopped and brought me fuel, when I was on the way to a job interview. He worked at the same place. Lost contact for a few years, met again 7 years later and we are now a couple. Still happy that I forgot to fill up my car that day

15. As Chris knows, sometimes $20 is all it takes to restore your faith in humans.

It was the week before Christmas, and I was broke, with a broken cell phone. I desperately needed to fix it, I was waiting on the results from three different job interviews. I have Sprint, and until recently, if my phone messed up, they would give me a new one - but I found out they had switched to a deductible-type plan. basically, I was SOL. Every option to replace my phone required money I did not have. When the store manager directed me to try a corporate location, I just started crying in the middle of the store - I had used my last 5 bucks to put gas in the car to get to the Sprint store, and only had enough left to get home. I was trying to compose myself, making a scene, when a lady presses a twenty in my hand, and tells me to go get some gas. I have never felt so embarrassed in my life, and she could not have been nicer about it. She reassured me it was OK, and refused to give me her info so I could pay her back in the future. She did not know me from Adam. While most people in the store looked askance at me because of my clothes, and assumed I was looking for a freebie, this lady did something kind. She had no way to know I had two kids and a disabled, combat veteran husband at home. She had no way to know we were broke because I left my $55,000/year job with the National Guard to take care of my kids three years ago when they were 1 and 3 years old, when my husband's injuries were too severe to enable him to; nor could she know I had been looking for a job with zero success for the past nine months, once the kids were old enough to not require so much lifting. She had no way of knowing we had been scraping by, living off my GI Bill and my husband's disability, nor could she have know my GI Bill had ran out that very month - we get 36 months, and I had used all of mine, leaving our income to be reduced by fifty percent. She just saw a need and helped, without question. I am in a better position now, I start a new job on Monday. I have been trying to pay it forward as best I can. I hope you publish this, this lady really made a difference in my life that day, and I wish more people would do kind things, instead of making assumptions and automatically judging the poor. It is never as black and white as the "they are just lazy" brigade makes it sound.

See? People can suck sometimes, but most of them are good. Let's all make it our mission to end up on one of next year's "Nicest thing a stranger ever did for me" internet listicles. (But, like, don't just do it for the internet fame, okay?)

Chris Brown claps back at Aziz Ansari’s ‘SNL’ jab by getting racist.

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Aziz Ansari's stellar SNL monologue hilariously took on the insidious racism in the age of Trump with a big bit about a bloc of his supporters. Calling them "the lower case kkk," Ansari supposes that Trump supporters didn't all vote for Trump because of the racist and sexist rhetoric, but they rather just ignored it.

"Donald Trump is the Chris Brown of politics," he joked, as both Trump supporters and Brown fans say, “I’m just here for the tunes, not the extracurriculars.”

Trying to prove that he's not like Trump, Brown made a reactionary social media post with a racist schoolyard insult. That'll show 'em!

FUCK NO!!!!!! Somebody tell ALADDIN HOP OFF MY DICK! 😂.

A video posted by 1 YOU ❤️ 2 HATE (@chrisbrownofficial) on

Brown shared the video with the caption, "F*CK NO!!!!!! Somebody tell ALADDIN HOP OFF MY DICK! 😂."

Calling someone a Disney character for racist reasons is right outta the Trump playbook.

Congratulations. You played yourself.

Dr. Pimple Popper tackles a cyst on the back that's way bigger than it looks.

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A good cyst is like an iceberg—the part you see is only 10% of the full mass. And today's cyst from Dr. Pimple Popper could take down the Titanic. Not only does it burst forth with a truly satisfying torrent of goo, it keeps on delivering with a very hypnotic sac removal. This bad boy would be a delicacy for any popaholic.

Skip to 1:25 to see the pop.

Mondays are always easier after you've watched a good pop.


'Savage boyfriend' uses pizza order to punish girlfriend who won't make up her mind.

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An indecisive girlfriend is the bane of many a boyfriend's life. A man can only hear "I could eat whatever" or "It's fine" so many times before he is driven mad, especially because he knows that if he makes the wrong choice, it'll come back to haunt him. One boyfriend finally decided he'd had enough, and enlisted the help of his local pizza place to get revenge on his girlfriend.

But did he go too far? An image of his unique order was uploaded to Reddit by user RidingKeys. Take a look and decide for yourself. (He definitely did.)

Under "customizations," this dude wrote:

Please send me an extra empty box that has "whatever" written in big letters in it because that's what my girlfriend said she wants

To be fair, he ordered 16-inch barbecue chicken pizza, so it's not like his girlfriend went hungry. But on the other hand, the pizza delivery guy knows all about their domestic squabbles now. So she definitely has reason to be mad.

Unfortunately, there's no information on how she reacted to this prank. But here's an artist's interpretation:

Hell hath no fury like a pizza-loving woman scorned.

Keep your friends close and your enemies in the comments section.

What's wrong with this picture of Donald Trump & Co. signing an anti-abortion executive order?

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Deep breaths, everyone. Earlier today, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that could limit women’s access to reproductive health across the globe, the Huffington Post reports. Here is a bone-chilling photo of POTUS (a word that suddenly sounds like a movie villain) signing the order while surrounded by deplorables members of his cabinet.

Can you spot what's wrong with this photo?

a) No women. B) No people of color. C) Everything is wrong with this photo.

Take a closer look at the faces of the other individuals in this photo. Every single one is male.

But surely, there must be a woman here somewhere, right? Let's pan around the room:

Nope.

Today Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, aka the "global gag rule," which prohibits the US from giving money to any international NGO's that "offer or advise on family and reproductive health options if they include abortion," even though the US dollars would not be spent on abortion-related services, the Huffington Post reports.

Limiting women and girls' access to contraceptive supplies, family planning and abortion services has severeimplications for women's health.

So what's wrong with eight white American men signing an executive order with potentially deadly implications for women and girls in developing countries and conflict zones across the world?

Everything. Everything is wrong with that.

If you're still wondering what motivated millions of women and allies across the world to take to the streets on Saturday, please get your sandy head out of the sand.

Let's spend the night having sleep issues together.

I'm hiring a personal trainer so I can stop lying to myself about my health and start lying to someone else.

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