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The hour we lose this weekend was the one when I was planning to go to the gym.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus was on a rollercoaster of emotions watching her son's basketball game.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus may be an Emmy Award winning actress, but she's also a typical mom. Dreyfus was in the stands to watch her son Charlie Hall play basketball for Northwestern University as they took on Rutgers in the NCAA Tournament.

Cameras were on Dreyfus (who is an alum of Northwestern herself) as her son entered the game, and if her facial expressions are to be believed, it seems she was on a rollercoaster of emotions.

You bet she pulled out that phone to take some photos.

Northwestern did end up defeating Rutgers 83-61.

Luckily Charlie is probably used to seeing his mom make weird faces on TV. And if basketball ever fails him, it seems that he could follow in her footsteps and pursue a career in comedy.

Internet outraged over tone-deaf article on how 'anybody' can pay off their student loans.

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Financial website Business Insider is facing a tidal wave of snarky tweets after posting an interview with Ebony Horton, a 31-year-old who managed to pay off $220,000 of student loans in only three years. If that seems too good to be true, you're right. In a tweet that's since gone viral, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student named Samuel highlighted a handful of factors in Horton's story that make her advice less than helpful for most millennials.

Here are the excerpts Samuel highlighted. See if you notice a pattern.

Back home in Joliet, Illinois, Horton took a job as an operations manager at the nonprofit her mother runs. The salary was comparable to what she made in DC, but the cost of living was drastically less. She increased her student-loan payments, setting the lofty goal of paying them off entirely in a year.

Horton and her boyfriend tied the knot soon after the move. Horton's mother gave the couple a condo that she had purchased at an auction as a wedding gift. It became crucial in wiping away the hefty student-loan tab.

Horton and her husband lived in the condo for three months, but then they decided to move in with her grandparents down the street and started renting out the condo to bring in extra income.

To anyone who feels overwhelmed by the prospect of taking on student loans — or paying back any debt they've incurred — Horton has a simple message: "I just want them to feel empowered that they can pay if off. If I can do it, anybody can."

Yes, anybody can pay off their student loans, assuming they get handed a good job, can live rent free, are ready to get married, and receive property as a gift that gives them free money.

People on Twitter immediately started ripping this thing apart.

Where have I heard that recently?

It's time to spring forward to a maladjusted sleep cycle.

Billy Ray Cyrus sure seems to be suggesting that Miley and Liam secretly got married.

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Proud dad Billy Ray Cyrus shared a happy photo of a white dress-clad Miley Cyrus, whom we all know is engaged to Liam Hemsworth, so OH MY GOD.

To Twitter, vague message of happiness, combined with the white dress, reeks of wedding bells.

Papa Cyrus spurred suspicion to the the next level by retweeting suspicious people ready to celebrate the nuptials.

B-but, why is the picture through a monitor? Which appears to be in a van? But also, why would the Father of the Bride fan rumors he knew not to be true?

If there really was a wedding, there's no doubt that it probably featured flower crowns, the hunky Hemsworth extended family, and certainly a weed tent.

LAPD detective says Richard Simmons is 'fine,' but some still think he's being held hostage.

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Richard Simmons is “perfectly fine” and is not being held captive in his home despite the rumors, a detective from the Los Angeles Police Department told People.Well, that's a relief!

The iconic fitness guru has apparently not been seen in public since 2014, which sparked rumors that he was being held hostage by his housekeeper. But the rumors are "garbage" and "none of it is true" according to LAPD detective Kevin Becker, who says police recently visited Simmons' home to check up on him and he is A-OKAY.

"The fact of the matter is, we went out and talked to him, he is fine, nobody is holding him hostage," Becker told People. "He is doing exactly what he wants to do. If he wants to go out in public or see anybody, he will do that.”

The detective continued: “He is perfectly fine and he is very happy. I don’t know what he is going to do, but right now he is doing what he wants to do and it is his business.”

Simmons also made a statement a year ago saying "No one is holding me in my house as a hostage," and said he was just taking a break from public life.

The recent investigation was apparently prompted by the popularity of a new podcast called Missing Richard Simmons. In one episode, the host interviewed a former assistant who claimed that a maid currently on Simmons’ staff was holding him hostage.

That's a pretty weird rumor to just make up out of nowhere, so you know there must be a backup story here. Whatever it is, I just hope Richard Simmons is happy, autonomous, and on the couch watching Friends reruns and eating Doritos.

The man spent decades dancing around in a sparkly tank top just so we could have toned calves and highs. He's probably just tired!

Thank you to the snow for giving me an extension on my winter body.


The funniest theories on why Sean Spicer wore his flag pin upside-down.

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During Friday's White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer accidentally addressed the news media while his American flag lapel pin was upside-down. He was quickly alerted to this breach of protocol and fixed the pin, but the damage was done. Jokesters on the internet were ready to go to town on their second-favorite punching bag (after Trump).

Many commenters pointed out that according to the official code, the flag should only be flown upside-down as a distress signal.

Here are the best jokes about #PinGate that we could find.

If America were wearing a suit, its flag pin would be upside-down right now.

Let's split the check and you pay both halves.

Lawyer slyly breastfeeds on live TV until one small detail gives her away.

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Rachel Sklarr is a feminist media figure, former lawyer and co-founder of The Li.st, a professional network for women. Oh, and she's also a single mom of a 10-month-old daughter named Ruby.

How does she do it all?? Multi-tasking, of course (moms are the best at this)! During a recent TV interview, Sklarr managed to breastfeed her 10-month-old daughter, Ruby, on air, without anyone noticing. Until the very end, when somebody very adorably gave her away.

You can watch the hysterical moment here:

"I thought it went off without a hitch—I didn’t realize she’d reached up at the end until they told me after the segment," Sklar told HelloGiggles."Her timing was perfect; she did it right when I was signing off. She wanted in on the action."

Sklarr shared the gif on Twitter, where it has been retweeted hundreds of times. Twitter is obsessed with her badass mom skills:

(Someone give this woman a trophy already!!!!!!)

And at least one mom can relate.

Sklar also told HelloGiggles she often posts “brelfies” to do her part to help reduce stigma and secrecy around breastfeeding. Like this adorable one:

Brunch.

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“I find it bananas that there is any controversy around breastfeeding," she said. "It’s a completely natural phenomenon."

Chrissy Teigen shuts down 'miserable' trolls who went after her one-year-old daughter.

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Being a woman and mom in the public eye, Chrissy Teigen has seen (and eviscerated) her fair share of vicious online trolls. But this is a new low. The model and mom posted an epic call out on Twitter early this morning after some trolls had the audacity to go after her and John Legend's 1-year-old daughter, Luna. WHAT?!

A Daily Mail article recently featured photos of Teigen's family out out shopping in Beverly Hills. Photos like this one:

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend spotted in Beverly Hills shopping with baby Luna! 📸 FameFlyNet

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Apparently the pics received some nasty comments, criticizing Teigen and Legend's parenting skills, and even Luna's facial expressions.

Teigen, queen of Twitter and my heart, called out the trolls by tweeting out screenshots of the comments to her 4.6 million followers:

"Imagine being this miserable," she wrote. "We are fine, thanks."

BYE, HATERS.

People are tweeting their support for Teigen, and everyone seems to agree that Twitter trolls are not happy people.

In addition to being unhappy, trolls are often not great spellers. As a few people pointed out one had written of Luna: "she never smiles or frys."

Frys??????

Seriously though, it can be easy to forget that celebrities have smartphones and wifi signals and sometimes they read the things we write about them. Yeesh! So we should probably be a little nicer. And not criticize kids, ever.

Also, Chrissy, IF you're reading this, I have zero opinions about how you and John Legend raise your beautiful baby or how often she fries.

Want to hang out and go shopping sometime?????? (Hey it's worth a shot!)

Cancer patient who Samantha Bee said had 'Nazi Hair' is not satisfied with her apology.

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Earlier this week, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee unknowingly used a clip of a young man with stage 4 brain cancer named Kyle Coddington in a segment about "Nazi Hair." Since then, the show as tweeted an apology to Coddington, as well as removed him from the piece. On Friday, March 10, Coddington went on FOX & Friends to discuss what is now being called Hairgate, and explain why he didn't think the show's apology was enough.

On the segment, Coddington says that he has not heard further from Samantha Bee, aside from the tweet that was issued from the show's official account, and a $1,000 donation that was made to his GoFundMe to help defray treatment costs.

While Coddington appreciated the donation, he felt that the show's response was "kind of a half apology," USA Todayreports. "I would say the effects of this go much further than just insulting me and the illness itself. It's just inconsiderate and very unprofessional to you know lump together anyone who has a certain hairstyle or just by the way they look."

Coddington also released an official statement on the issue in which he says that "this kind of behavior should be rejected by both sides of the aisle," referring to the two major political parties. Coddington says that he is a registered Democrat and has been "'Never Trump' through the entirety of the 2016 election cycle." But it's also clear that FOX & Friends, a conservative show, used the segment to create negative sentiment towards liberal news outlets at large, and that many will see Coddington's story as another reason to reject Democrats across the board (even though Coddington is a Democrat). So, there you have it: a liberal show accidentally mocks a liberal man for a typically "conservative" haircut, and issues a less-than-personal apology. Luckily Coddington is staying positive and had some words of hope for anyone fighting cancer.

Pregnant mom awarded the first decent man to offer up his subway seat a special trophy.

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Yvonne Lin was eight months into her second pregnancy when she was offered a seat on the NYC subway by a man for the first time. (Yes, that means she went an entire pregnancy in NYC without ever being offered a seat by a man.) 38-year-old Lin had become so frustrated by the lack of courtesy she received during her first pregnancy that she turned her second pregnancy into a social experiment. She created a "Decent Dude" trophy which she carried around with her every day of her second pregnancy, ready to bestow it upon the first guy who offered her his seat. Finally, on March 6, she found her decent dude.

"I've been gradually coming to the conclusion that men suck. I didn't get a single subway seat offered to me by a man throughout my first pregnancy," Yin said in her Instagram post featuring the trophy and her winner. "So for the second pregnancy, I had this made and I've been carrying it around everyday - till last Friday. This guy is the winner!"

The trophy is funny and tragic all in one. Even though the recipient did a good deed, it's unfortunate that his half of the population had failed to offer common courtesy to a pregnant woman for almost two entire pregnancies. Plus, the title of the trophy is almost as uninspired as a "Most Team Spirit" award: "#1 DECENT DUDE. First man to offer subway seat to pregnant woman throughout Two Pregnancies."

If you're wonder which train is the least mannerly in New York, Lin told DNA Info that she "usually takes the A train during the morning and afternoon rush hours." But Lin hopes her social experiment will inspire others to be more proactive when it comes to helping out pregnant women. "If men just gave up their seats the same amount of time or similar [as women], then it would be no problem." Yeah, men, stop doing those experiments where you wear body suits that simulate the experience of being pregnant and just give up you dang seats!

Criss Angel was rushed to the hospital after going limp during a straight jacket stunt.

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Professional illusionist Criss Angel was rushed to the hospital after failing to execute a straight jacket stunt on Friday night during his Las Vegas show Mindfreak Live!, TMZ reports. It's since been additionally reported that Angel was well enough to be released, and walked out of the emergency room at Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center later that night, around 10pm.

It was only about ten minutes into the show when Angel, who was suspended upside down in a straight jacket, was struggling to execute his escape and went limp. "After spinning in vain for about 2 minutes, he was quickly lowered down and the curtain closed onstage," TMZ said of the incident.

There have been a few strange occurrences in the magic and illusionist world lately. Last month, magician Daryl Easton was found dead in the closet of Hollywood's Magic Castle, a club for magicians. And last year, David Blaine accidentally shot himself in the foot, and later admitted that he thought he was going to die in that moment, according toVulture. All this to say that magic is a very dangerous line of work! And if it's any consolation, Angel is absolutely a better illusionist than Gob from Arrested Development.


We're really feeling this 'shybot' that just wanders around the desert deliberately avoiding humans.

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If the news lately is making you feel like it would be a great time to retreat into a remote wasteland and never see another human, you're going to love shybot.

The little robotic rover, designed by Italian artist Norma Jeane and several engineers for Desert X Biennial, a months-long exhibition that uses California's Coachella Valley as a "canvas," recently traveled for a week around the Sonoran Desert with no real objective besides rolling the heck away from any people. Its peaceful adventures were streamed for audiences back in San Francisco, leaving the publicity-averse bot to navigate various plants, rocks, and other obstacles in complete isolation. Ahhh, this piece of machinery doesn't know how lucky it is.

In summary: TAKE US WITH YOU, SHYBOT.

This hilarious satirical Twitter account points out just how much we need feminism.

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If you don't follow @NoToFeminism yet, honestly you're messing up. It's a satirical Twitter account, written by a fictional woman (generically called Woman Against Feminism) who is not a feminist, and it highlights exactly how insane anti-feminist beliefs and agendas are.

Rebecca Shaw, the genius behind the account, is able to poke holes in the logic of many conservative ideas about the female half of the population, and make obvious just how important the feminist agenda is. She created the account and began tweeting after the "Women Against Feminism" heated up in 2014, but it feels more relevant and important now that we have an admitted sexual assaulter as President, and a VP who is vehemently against reproductive rights.

Shaw explains why she thinks Twitter is a great comedy medium in an interview with with Ravishly: "The Internet gives a lot more scope for a lot of different kinds of voices in satire or comedy to be heard over more traditional outlets like television," she said. "Basically anything that helps elevate the voices of people alongside (or above) voices of straight white dudes is a beautiful thing." It's a beautiful thing indeed. In honor of Shaw's continued dedication to creating important conversation online, as well as her ability to make us laugh, here are some of my favorite tweets of Woman Against Feminism:

Monks adopted this stray dog and named him Friar Moustache, so get ready for your heart to explode.

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The Franciscan monastery of Cochabamba, Bolivia, just got a new friar. He wears the robes and lives a life of spiritual purity—and also walks on all fours.

Yes, that's a dog monk, a stray taken in by the order, and his name is Friar Bigotón, which is Spanish for Friar Moustache. Truly, god is great.

The adoption was done through Proyecto Narices Frias (or the Cold Nose Project), an animal rescue group that figured a monastery named after the patron saint of animals would make a great home for one of their pets.

"If only all the churches of our country adopt a dog and care for him like Friar Bigotón, we are sure that the parishioners would follow his example," the group wrote in a Facebook post.

"His life is all about playing and running," fellow friar Jorge Fernandez told the Dodo. "Here, all of the brothers love him very much. He is a creature of God." He also apparently enjoys his sacred duty of "preaching to the fish."

Fray Carmelo predicando a los peces

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Bless your little heart, Friar Moustache. Dogs are my religion, now and forever.

Very nice man creates tiny hats for a toad that visits his doorstep every night.

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It only makes sense that if a toad visits you ever night on your stoop, you must repay it by making it tiny hats. Because clearly at that point you are living inside of a weird fairy tale, and it's important to act accordingly. This is a true story about a man named Chris Newsome who was visited nightly by a toad, Mashablereports. "He lives under the daisies in my flower bed and he would come to the porch to eat bugs," Newsome said.

Newsome named his friendly visitor Mr. Toad.

A friend of Newsome's had a child who had lost a pet toad not that long ago, and the kid enjoyed that Newsome had a toad visitor. " He asked if Mr. Toad was still coming to visit me every night, so to make him feel better I sent him a photo to show that Mr. Toad was alive and well," Newsome said. "I started making the hats to cheer him up because all kids would laugh at a toad with a hat." Little did Newsome know that not just kids, but even full grown adults would love his toad photos. And what a nice guy! So, Newsome got to working on his tiny accessory skills and documented the whole saga on Imgur.

"Foam paper seemed like a toad friendly material," Newsome said.
Ta-da! A dapper Mr. Toad.

He even made a gif to show that Mr. Toad didn't mind the hat at all:

But Newsome wasn't satisfied with just a plain hat.

"Turn that hat into a toad pimp hat," Newsome said on Imgur.

Though a pimp hat might not be NSFW for the kids, surely they'd love a Mr. Peanut style monocle:

I mean he looks amazing.

From there, Newsome expanded to other hat genres.

A cool guy toad.
A cute lil cowboy toad.

Newsome has provided us with some very good Internet, and I hope he continues to create this IRL fairy tale world for us. It's nice to believe in something good. And toads in hats? Come on, what's better than that?

This scientist is constantly putting enormous nightmare bugs on her face like it's no big deal.

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Nancy Miorelli doesn't have your usual job—in that she studies insects for a living. And not only is she fascinated by the sort of exotic bugs that would send you or I screaming into a Target to buy every can of Raid they have in stock, but she has no problem putting them on her face. In fact, she seems to like it.

We know what you're thinking: WHY??? But Miorelli has good reasons for posting her #FaceBug shots—principally, educational purposes.

And if you're wondering whether Miorelli has ever regretted trying to put one of these mini-monsters directly on her face, the answer is a resounding yes:

Even so, she's not slowing down. As her Twitter account goes increasingly viral, hardly a day goes by without one of her eye-popping insect selfies.

Oh, and more recently she's been on a kick about eating bugs. So maybe the critters she lets walk all over her are the ones who should be nervous.

If Miorelli knows any fear in this world, we sure haven't seen it yet.

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