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Gordon Ramsay has been savagely roasting amateur chefs on Twitter all weekend.

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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay can be notoriously cruel as a food critic—in fact, it's the entire basis of his success as a TV personality. But he's also, understandably, a busy guy, and doesn't always have time to mock the fans who ask him for a candid opinion on their latest culinary masterpiece.

Until this weekend, apparently. Seemingly enjoying a bit of downtime over the past few days, Ramsay has been torching amateur chef's meals on Twitter with abandon. Who knows how many dreams he's burnt down with these comments?

It's like they say: If you can't stand the heat, stay out of Ramsay's mentions. Unless you can make a decent tray of cinnamon rolls, that is.


Watch the dramatic moment a missing toddler is found in the bushes, thanks to a Search and Rescue dog.

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In this dramatic helicopter footage, a missing toddler can be seen being pulled from a mess of blackberry bushes. His rescue is being credited to a Search and Rescue dog, according to People.

The 2-year-old is River Schomaker, from Northeast Portland, OR. On Saturday, the toddler's mother, Hollian Markusen, woke up at 6 a.m. to find him gone. She reported him missing, and six hours later, he was found just two blocks from his home, where he'd fallen into the blackberry brambles.

The Portland Police told Peoplethat the toddler was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for exposure to the cold and scratches from the blackberry bushes. It doesn't sound like he sustained any serious injuries, though. Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief!

The hero dog is Ava, a German shepherd from the Mountain Wave Search and Rescue K9. Becky Irving, a volunteer with the organizatoin told KOIN that the dogs are trained to search for the freshest human scents.

It sure looks like even Fox News is starting to turn on Donald Trump.

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As President Trump scrambled to defend his fabrication of some terror attack in Sweden at a Florida rally on Saturday, he fell back on an old ally: Fox News.

But does Fox News still have Trump's back? It sure looks as if the tide may be turning even among the lovable, ancient, "Make America Great Again"-shouting paranoids who religiously watch the arch-conservative, definitely-not-fake-news channel. A couple of polls show these viewers are increasingly annoyed with Trump and his flogging of the media for, you know, doing their jobs.

Meanwhile, a few Fox News anchors have questioned Trump's antics over the past week. It's definitely way too little, way too late, but fascinating nonetheless. There was Shepard Smith blasting the president's dismissal of real stories while inventing others. "It's crazy what we're watching every day," he said.

There was Bret Baier admitting that Trump seems "unhinged."

And in the biggest pushback yet, Chris Wallace said that Trump had gone too far in labeling the media—of which Fox News is a part—an enemy of the American people. His interview with Trump's chief of staff, Reince Priebus, went about as badly as it could for the administration's flustered spokesman.

Is there a shift in the wind? Is the network all out of Kool-Aid? Is this because they don't have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore? Tough to say, but keep an eye out—if Trump and Fox News really go to war, we'll want to be ready.

A fitness blog tried to shame people out of eating pizza and it gloriously backfired.

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Listen, nobody eats pizza because of the nutritional value. You eat it because it's delicious and makes your soul feel good and the world feel right for just a few moments. I just wish someone had explained that to Naija Gym Blog, who made a big mistake by attempting to shame people out of eating pizza on Twitter earlier this week. The tweet by the blog that describes itself as "No. 1 Nigerian fitness blog to get real facts about staying healthy and being fit," tried to make people feel gross about the amount of oil in two slices of pizza with this "statistic":

Obviously the internet responded with a resounding "bring on the oil, baby!" The tweet itself has such a strange set up logic-wise that it's very easy to make fun of. Instead of taking the route of calorie-shaming people, the "statistic" instead says that eating pizza is like "swallowing 3 spoons of warm oil," which doesn't describe 1) what size spoon we're talking about or 2) what type of oil they're apparently comparing it to. Also, why the "warm oil" detail? Why is it important that the oil be warm? It seems like the tweet was trying to gross users out by describing the experience of swallowing warm oil, which is perhaps in Naija Gym Blog's eyes something that only a truly grotesque heathen would dare do. But boy were they wrong. Here are are some of the best responses to the fitness blog's attempt to shame people out of enjoying one of the few pleasures we have left in this life. Naturally, the clap back parade is led by Chrissy Teigan.

Lindsay Lohan wants Disney to cast her as Ariel in a live-action remake of 'The Little Mermaid.'

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Lindsay Lohan might not have acted in a major theatrical role since 2013's Scary Movie 5, but she's got a little idea brewing. She wants to play Ariel in a live-action remake of Disney's animated classic, A Little Mermaid, because, duh, have you seen her hair?

#thelittlemermaid

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And sure, Lindsay Lohan hasn't put out an album (her first and last) since 2004, but come on, have you even seen her hair?? It's red! Like Ariel's! On Sunday morning, Lohan took to Instagram to post a side-by-side photo of her and the Disney princess. Originally, the caption outlined her plan for bringing her idea to fruition, but now the scheme has been replaced with a simple and uncontroversial "#thelittlemermaid." According to EW, the original caption read, "I will sing again, as #ariel #thelittlemermaid [if] @Disney approve that #billcondon directs it," referring to the director who helped bring musical films like Chicago and Dream Girls to life.

It's entertaining that the only contingency Lohan mentions is whether or not Bill Condon will agree to direct the film, not whether she will get cast or if the movie will even be made by Disney, but you have to respect her confidence. Would Lohan make a great Ariel? Who's to say. But let us not forget the fact that Lohan has played opposite herself not once, but twice, in The Parent Trap and again in I Know Who Killed Me. Plus, her hair.

Genius girls hatched an insane plan to get a rat out of their house and it worked.

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I know that this might sound like an exaggeration, but please trust me when I say that the following 13-second video has more team spirit, innovative strategy, screaming, astounding victory and hockey skills than the every Stanley cup game ever combined. (No, I have never watched the Stanley Cup.) It's a story of triumph. It's a tale about the human spirit. And it's a rivalry that is as old as time itself. It's college girls vs. rat, and it's the most invigorating thing I've watched in weeks. Take a look:

No, your eyes do not decieve you, this is an IRL game of Mouse Trap. The plan was conceived and crafted by four college students who attend Duquesne University, Buzzfeed reports, and their successful Rube Goldberg invention is proof that if a group of young women set their mind to something, they can make it happen.

Now, I love everything about this video. There's the quick showcase of the bucket system right at the top that makes you wonder what the heck is going to happen, there's the initial scream when the rat is first discovered. And then there's the beautiful cascade of screams that follows as the rat ping pongs out of the bathroom. There's the huge-ass rat flopping down the stairs, and there's the final, perfectly-timed broom thwack that sends the rat flying out the front door of the house, followed by a victory leap. But I would say my favorite thing about the video is that it exists at all, because these girls for some reason decided to film this insane moment in the off-chance that their plan worked, or just to capture the madness regardless of what went down.

I love that on the outside these girls look like a typical clique of basic twenty-something white girls (you know, the kind that wears a tiara that says "legally 21" when they turn 21), but that they are smarter than they let on. They have street smarts and tactical skills, and challenge us to question our own assumptions and judgments of sorority-sister-looking women. I love that the entire time they're succeeding in their plan they're also screaming at ear-piercing and highly obnoxious levels. These women are full of contradictions and they are perfect.

Something about this video makes me feel great. You just want these girls to win, and it's so insane that they do. It's a true girl squad underdog story, and you better believe I'm going to watch this video first thing when I wake up to get me through at least the next two weeks. Can't think of a better way to give my troubles the ol' "BYE BITCH."

Twitter made some great IKEA jokes following Trump's bizarre Sweden comment.

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On Saturday, Trump made a comment about Sweden that left everybody scratching their heads. "You look at what's happening last night in Sweden ... Sweden ... who would believe this?" he said at a rally in Florida, suggesting something terrible had happened in the country, when in fact, no events of note had taken place. At first everyone was trying to piece together what he could have possibly been talking about, but then, thankfully, they turned to the jokes. And while we might be pretty confident we know more about our Scandinavian friend than the president, that doesn't mean we know much about them beyond the fact that IKEA was founded there. So, without further ado I give you the best IKEA-related Sweden jokes in the wake of Trump's bizarre comment, which he later clarified was based on a Fox News report on immigration.

Presidents Day is a sad reminder my wallet is filled with pictures of only the first one


Michelle Obama is slated to make an adorable return to the public eye.

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Wow, the last three years since the Obama's left The White House sure have been rough. We're all so much older and less attractive than we were back then! Oh, it's only been four weeks you say? Hm, that's strange. How do you explain my rapid increase in gray hairs? Oh, right. Well, here's some good news for you to cling to in these trying times: Michelle Obama's first public appearance since she and her family moved out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been scheduled, and it's gonna be freaking adorable.

According to TheLos Angeles Times, the former FLOTUS is going to be a guest judge on MasterChef - Junior in late February. Hey, that's just around the corner! We can make it until then! Michelle Obama will be joining chefs Gordon Ramsay and Christina Tosi for the competition, during which children ages 8-13 will be competing for a $100,000 cash prize. And given Michelle's focus on promoting healthy lifestyles for children through her "Let's Move!" initiative, she seems like the perfect fit. Now, you not only get to watch adorable children in tiny chef outfits make highly elaborate meals with impeccable precision, you also get to see Michelle encouraging the heck out of them (because it's very hard to imagine Michelle as a judge who doles out anything but positive feedback and smiles).

Other notable guest judges include Martha Stewart and The Muppets. So, yeah, this is going to be very cute.

John Oliver enlists a group of techno dancers to explain the horrors of Putin to Trump.

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John Oliver, America's foremost investigative journalist comedian, dove into the Trump-Putin bromance on Sunday night, and what the dangerous weirdness means for humanity.

While Putin is known on this side of the Iron Curtain as more meme than man, Oliver yanks the horse from underneath him to explain how he is a ruthless autocrat who has annexed Crimea, spread anti-gay propaganda, and may or may not (may) have had opponents killed. But we should get along with him, eh?

Because none of the dangers of cozying up to this terrifying dude—and playing right into his propaganda—seem to register with the frickin' Commander in Chief, Oliver composed a warning in a way that just might stick with Donald Trump:

Sexy women dancing to techno music.

An important warning not just to him, but to us.

Leah Remini says that Tom Cruise could 'singlehandedly' end Scientology.

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Actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini appeared as a guest on Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday to discuss her activism aimed at shedding a light on the cult and those who are victimized by it. Her A&E docuseries Scientology and the Aftermath explores how Scientology preys on people and what they are taught to believe, as well as why people are afraid to leave Scientology or speak out against it.

When Remini was explaining to Maher the rigorous studying that Scientology requires (she mentioned studying for at least two hours per day), Maher questioned whether or not A-list Scientology celebrities like Tom Cruise or John Travolta had to do the same. "Yes," Remini replied. She went on to explain that while certain rules are bent for him, which has led to claims of hypocrisy, that he does dedicate as much time to Scientology as other members of the group. "He could single-handedly end this," Maher said, meaning the entire existence of Scientology. "He could end this," she agreed.

But the twist is that Scientology makes its believers feel like they are also single-handedly responsible for saving the planet, so that they don't want to leave, and Tom Cruise is their poster child for that belief. Remini explains: "Because they are saying he single-handedly is clearing the planet, is changing the planet, so most Scientologists believe."

Remini's work offers humanization of the victims of Scientology where often our culture paints the cult as a joke, and the interview gives just a small glance at what she explains in more depth in her docuseries. You can watch the interview here:

Angelina Jolie answers questions about Brad Pitt when she really just wants to talk about Cambodia.

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Angelina Jolie, a good person and a good sport, talked about her divorce in an interview with the BBC about the new film she directed.

The director-actor-humanitarian-divorcée was in Cambodia to promote her new film, First They Killed My Father, about the horrific Pol Pot regime that killed 1.5 million people.

Of course, Jolie was asked about her high-profile divorce from high-profile actor Brad Pitt.

“I don’t want to say very much about that, except to say it was a very difficult time and… and we are a family and we will always be a family, and we will get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it,” she said, through tears, after a long sigh.

Jolie and Pitt are the parents of six Jolie-Pitts: Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8.

“Many, many people find themselves in this situation,” Jolie said of divorce, “My whole, my family… we’ve all being through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children… and my focus is finding this way through. We are and forever will be a family. I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer.”

Asked about where she sees herself in five years, Jolie joked about the upcoming challenges of having a house full of teenagers.

“At that stage, I hope just standing...In five years’ time I would like to be traveling around the world visiting my children, hoping that they’re just happy and doing really interesting things, and I imagine in many different parts of the world, and I’ll be supporting them.”

Jolie added what she hopes to give her children: "the right sense of what they’re capable of, and the world as it should be seen."

“Not through the prism of Hollywood or through a certain kind of life," she emphasizes, "but really take them into the world, where they have a really good sense and become rounded people.”

There's an entire forum for people who love to eat oranges in the shower and it's truly enlightening.

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Let's not make this more complicated than it needs to be: there's a forum on Reddit called r/ShowerOrange, and it's dedicated to discussing the experience of eating an orange while in the shower. A lot of lurkers on the page or new visitors have tried to get active users to explain the page's existence in an attempt to understand what the draw to a shower orange is, but that's a lot like asking someone who believes in God to explain themselves to an atheist. Either you get it, or you don't.

Is it because oranges are messy, so the shower is a good place to not worry about getting sticky? Or is it a sexual thing? No! Do not try and rationalize this unbridled passion for the strange citrus situation! Let's just let be what it is: a very funny, very weird thing. Here are some of my favorite pictures and comments from the very strange world that is r/ShowerOrange. But first, the origin story, which was a response to the question, "What's something unconventional everyone should try out?":

Ok so this is going to sound real weird... but here it goes.

In 2005 at BeachBreak, Camp Darby Italy. On a club beyond youth trip my male councilor told me something I would never forget.

He said "PHOTON_BANDIT, would you like to know the most liberating, carnal, and best feel good thing you can ever experience is?"

Of course I said yes.

"Have you ever eaten a orange in the shower?"

"no... no i havent"

"Well just think about it PHOTON_BANDIT. Tearing apart a cold fresh orange with your bare hands, just letting the juices run over your body. Not worrying if your going to get sticky, or anything. Just ripping it in half, and tearing into it with your teeth like a savage cannibal who hasnt eaten in a week! Yes PHOTON_BANDIT, this is the most carnal, ferocious, liberating thing a man can do"

And from that day forward, I start my mornings with an orange in the shower.

When asked "why do y'all do this?" one user says that the answer to Shower Orange is right in front of you:

Whoa, deep.

A Shower Orange for Valentine's Day:

How cute.

A very tough question from user SpecialBusDriver:

Seems like an impossible decision.

Rule Number Two: No Grapefruit:

Sorry, grapefruit lovers. Create your own subreddit.

This new SO enthusiast says, "My roommate was right! 2017 is looking up!":

A handy tray that is definitely intended for peels.

This person likes to eat the peel (and who am I to judge?):

I've never thought about eating the peel before.

The Shower Orange is the essence of life:

Don't you want to let yourself be free?

And there are plenty more Shower Orange posts where that came from. Men's Health even wrote an article about it. So, now that you have seen the ways of the Shower Orange the only question that remains is: how soon until you let yourself be free?

Chris Pratt, Josh Gad and more stars ambush Daisy Ridley to beg for 'Star Wars' spoilers.

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For weeks, Josh Gad has been employing a variety of tactics to sneak Star Wars spoilers out of Rey (Skywalker?) herself, Daisy Ridley.

First, he tried to sneak it out of her under the guise of an improv for their new movie, Murder on the Orient Express.

Then, he sought out none other than Dame Judi Dench to help interrogate.

He tried to keep it simple. but to no avail.

Finally, as a last-ditch effort, Gad brought in the ultimate reinforcements: Chris Pratt (who wants to know just how many 'Guardians of the Galaxy' there are), Bryce Dallas Howard (who wants to compare footwear to her Jurassic World experience), Leslie Odom Jr. (Aaron Burr, Sir), and Colin Trevorrow (director of Episode IX).

Help us, Daisy Ridley. You're our only hope.

NASA scientist says "it's bullsh*t" that Pluto was ever demoted from planet status.

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A team of scientists at NASA are just as upset as you were that Pluto was demoted from planet status to "dwarf planet" back in 2006.

“It’s bullshit,” Alan Stern, principle investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, said of the planet's loss of ranking. Gizmodo reports that now Stern is heading up a team at NASA who has proposed a new definition of planets that would return everyone's favorite member of the solar system back to its proper position as the ninth planet from the Sun.

The new definition for planets can be boiled down to a shockingly basic-sounding qualification. Under this new ruling, any "round objects in space that are smaller than stars" would be considered planets. This means that the Earth's moon, as well as other moons in the solar system would then be considered planets as well. There's also a more complicated explanation of that qualification ("a sub-stellar mass body that has never undergone nuclear fusion and that has sufficient self-gravitation to assume a spheroidal shape adequately described by a triaxial ellipsoid regardless of its orbital parameters") but that's the gist of it.

And if that happens, we'll unfortunately need to come up with a new pneumonic device for remembering the order of the planets that isn't "My Very Enormous Monster Just Sat Upon Nine Pizzas." I'm not sure if I'm willing to bring Pluto back if it means I'll have to relearn everything I was taught in the third grade.

But, it makes sense that Stern as a vested interest in making this happen. After dedicating so much time on the New Horizons mission to capturing information and photographs about Pluto, it probably stung to hear that the planet was being demoted. In 2015 Stern told Business Insider that astronomers have no place in determining what qualifies something as a planet. "You really should listen to planetary scientists that know something about this subject," he said. "When we look at an object like Pluto, we don’t know what else to call it."

Will he succeed? And will third grade curriculums across the country be thrown away, as teachers try to craft a new pneumonic device for remembering the order of the planets? It's all up to the International Astronomical Union, and only time will tell.


Good luck finding something to complain about on a Monday when you're off from work.

College student grades ex-girlfriend's apology letter, sends it back.

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Florida Man Nick Lutz is going viral for his academic takedown of his ex-girlfriend's apology letter.

F af.

The University of Central Florida student told BBC Newsbeatwas dating his ex for eight months, and "Four months in she started hiding her phone and I heard she had code names for guys in her contacts list."

When the cheater wrote a long apology letter, Lutz took the opportunity to give her a free lesson in writing and editing, offering some solid critiques.

Professor Lutz critiques the opening for being overly long with "lots of repetition," and even points out the lack of proper indentation at the beginning for the paragraph.

"Strong statement. No supporting details to support your hypothesis," he writes. Damn.

Ever the editor, Lutz points out that the second page could use more details on the wrongdoings, and that "loose" is not the same as "lose."

As the essay keeps rambling, Lutz criticizes her "lackadaisical" handwriting and overuse of "useless fillers."

In the final page, the author writes, "I love you," which Lutz corrects with a question mark on the end.

He ultimately give his ex's d-fense a D-.

"Long intro, short conclusion, strong hypothesis but nothing to back it up. Details are important," he writes.

"Need to stop contradicting your own story and pick a side. While this gesture is appreciated, I would prefer details over statements. Revision for half credit will be accepted."

The internet then joined in to collaborate on the copyediting,

While the cheater failed him, Lutz got to fail her back. He even scored a new date, who hopefully has better grammar skills. And won't cheat, of course.

Simon & Schuster finally canceled Milo Yiannopoulos' book and the internet says it's too little, too late.

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Unapologetic alt-right idiot and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has said a lot of offensive, bigoted and stupid things. And finally, one of them cost him a book deal. Over the weekend, a video surfaced in which Yiannopoulos made comments condoning sexual relations with boys as young as 13 years old and made light of pedophilia conducted by Catholic priests. On Monday, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), who had scheduled him as their keynote speaker, decided to un-invite him from this week's conference after making waves by announcing him as the featured guest just two days prior.

Then, Simon & Schuster dumped him and canceled his book Dangerous that was slated to come out in June 2017, and has already sold 50,000 copies via pre-order, according to The New York Times. But the straw that broke the camel's back came a bit too late for many who criticized Simon & Schuster when they didn't cancel the book earlier. Yiannopoulos has made many other hateful comments in the past, including openly mocking a trans student on a college campus in December and leading a slew of racist comments against SNL comedian Leslie Jones on Twitter. The problem is that Yiannopoulos doesn't represent a set of political beliefs so much as he is a poster-child for a brand of racist, transphobic, xenophobic and sexist nationalism that shouldn't be encouraged. So, the internet gave Simon & Schuster the roasting they probably deserved for waiting so long to pull the plug. Here are some of the best responses to the whole incident.

And lastly, I'll leave you with a comment by author Roxanne Gay, who states that Simon & Schuster was acting out of self-preservation and in interest of their business, not making a political statement. Considering none of Yiannopoulos' previous comments weren't enough to cause them to cancel the book, it seems like she's right about that:

It's nice to come back to work after a long weekend of stressing about work.

Ivanka Trump tweeted about religious tolerance. It didn't turn out as planned.

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Today in "Really?" news, Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, tweeted about the need for religious tolerance, writing: "America is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance. We must protect our houses of worship & religious centers. #JCC"

Her tweet was in response to bomb threats called in to at least 10 different Jewish community centers on Monday, for the fourth time in five weeks, according to Forward.

This is a great sentiment and one that Ivanka Trump really ought to consider passing on to her father. Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's chief strategist, was the editor of Breitbart, an anti-Semitic publication, while Ivanka Trump practices Orthodox Judaism.

Twitter generally felt the same way about Ivanka Trump's message of religious tolerance: TELL YOUR DAD.

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