In a heartwarming video put together by Home Is Love, a Taiwanese group that promotes marriage equality, a 65-year-old father talks honestly about how he came to accept—and embrace—the fact that his oldest daughter is a lesbian.

But it wasn't always easy for him because of his generation and background. "Homosexual is such a distant concept to us," he explains in the video. So he got to work to try and understand.

The dad admits that he was "shocked" when he first learned his daughter is gay.

And he had questions.

But then he realized that his daughter's happiness was more important than his own misgivings.

So he did some homework.

And seeing his daughter happy with her partner and their child (his grandchild), he came around.

A weird thing about adulthood is when you realize, just like you, your parents aren't always right and sometimes they have a lot to learn. Kudos to this dad for opening his mind and his heart.

Plus, he looks a lot happier now.

Love wins!

After surviving alone in the wild for an entire year, reality TV show contestants on the show "Eden" finally emerged from the woods having fought off hunger, fatigue, and difficult social dynamics while living in a remote area of the British Isles. But, most of that won't be seen on the show, as it stopped running back in August, after only four episodes.

Here's the concept for the original premise of the show, which included 23 contestants, according to a promotional statement for the show:

With no prescribed infrastructure, the group will take in with them only what they can carry and the basics needed to kick start their experience, including the tools of their trade. What they do and how they do it is up to them. The series will follow the groups’ journey as they debate their own rules and laws, decide if they want to live together or separately, accept majority decisions or do as each of them pleases. Over 12 months, how will they work together to build their own shelter, grow their own food and raise their own livestock?

But, according to the New York Times, all but 10 of the contestants quit before the year was up, citing "concerns about health and safety, boredom and swarms of tiny biting insects called midges." The remaining 13 who stuck it out maybe got the worst deal of them all: learning you had just spent a year building a civilization while being tortured by small insects, and it didn't even make you famous.

Apparently viewership of the show dropped drastically, from 1.7 million watching the first episode, down to 800,000 on the fourth, after which the show was cut. Though that still doesn't explain why the show and network didn't alert the contestants once it was canceled, and get them out of the wilderness, where the conditions were clearly less-than-desirable.

Maybe the show didn't have the appeal of Survivor because it wasn't a competition; there were no winners and losers. "The appeal of Eden is that it was a real experiment," Channel 4, the British public service station that created the show, said in a statement. "And when filming began we had no idea what the results would be and how those taking part would react to being isolated for months in a remote part of the British Isles." So, next time you congratulate yourself for going "off the grid" for a weekend by renting out a cabin on Airbnb with four of your besties, just remember you ain't got nothing on the "Eden" contestants. And they don't have much to show for themselves either, save for a few bug bite scabs.

It all started with an all-too-believable Photoshop. After Trumpcare was killed yesterday, writer Justin Halpern created an alternative ending to the New York Times story on the Republican bill:

And boy did the internet want to believe. Within hours, everyone was posting about this hilarious emo ending to the story, in which Paul Ryan's cries out his feelings to Papa Roach's "Last Resort." Perhaps because it took each of us back to our own dark moments in middle school, when we were cut from the team, or didn't know how to grind at the dance, or had to get braces, and turned to Papa Roach to help us feel. Does it make sense that this set fire to the internet? Absolutely not. And that's exactly why it did. It's fake news mixed with insanity and a dash of teen angst. Everyone knew it was fake but still, they loved it:

Even Papa Roach jumped in to comment (after probably being shocked to see their mentions skyrocket):

Even the creator of the original meme was shocked that some people though it was serious, but it turned out that Paul Ryan sucks enough that the story was plausible:

Way too believable:

Plus, nothing matters anyway. We live in a post-truth world.

Maybe it if we wall play the song loud enough and sing sadly enough it will come true.

The Meryl Streep singing meme has been an unexpected source of delight on the internet for the past few weeks. The image, which is from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award ceremony of 2015, depicts "Streep caught in the middle of shouting something," according to Know Your Meme, has been accompanied by hilarious lyrics for the past few weeks. It never fails to make me giggle.

Lots of people joined in, but it seems a true winner of the meme has been established: Reading Rainbow. Once again, this meme seems to defy our expectations as a PBS kids show has made the funniest version of Mery Streep singing we've seen yet:

I mean, that's good content. It seems that Reading Rainbow tapped into the 90's nostalgia that lives within all of us, as people were so excited by the tweet that they began continuing the lyrics.

And then the meme transformed into people genuinely being really grateful for the role Reading Rainbow played in their childhood, which is sweet:

I like it when the internet is nice and good!

For now, Trumpcare is dead. The Obama-era health law it was supposed to replace is still the law of the land. Republicans, despite control of the White House and both sides of Congress, and with President Trump acting as party whip, couldn't even pull themselves together to vote on their garbage bill.

So if you were watching some college basketball last night and saw a commercial thanking your Republican representatives for repealing Obamacare, you probably did a double take. Because didn't that... not happen?

This ad and several others like it, tailored to specific markets and representatives, aired courtesy of the conservative American Action Network PAC, which is either wasting its money or really doubling down on the whole "fake news"/"alternative facts" angle. Because the sad thing is, you know at least some people who watched these commercials totally believed them.

Even more amazingly, these phony videos have been on American Action Network since March 14, well before any scheduled vote on Trumpcare. They were just too excited and confident about stripping away insurance for millions!

But hey, guys, really: don't worry about keeping your promises. Plenty of people get reelected for decades without doing that.

As we learned yesterday, the Trumpcare bill is dead. And for a guy who authored a book called The Art Of The Deal, the irony is impossible to ignore.

Since the news that the Republicans failed to push their bill through, the internet has been having a grand old time rewriting Trump's 1987 classic to reflect his apparent deal making tactics, as seen thus far during his presidency. Here are some of the funniest we've seen so far:

If you've ever fallen down into the kind of shame spiral that involves near-constant masturbation, you've likely wondered what kind of limits there are to such behavior. Most of us stop when we start getting a little sore, of course, but what if you... didn't? How far could you push yourself? What would happen?

Well, here's a cautionary tale for anyone with external genitalia and a penchant for self-pleasure, courtesy of Reddit's "Today I Fucked Up" forum. It turns out that pumping your prick too hard and too long can indeed have dire consequences—the kind you end up telling the whole internet about.

This was a few months ago, but I was just slapping the ol' beef and didn't really have a ton else to do. Came a few times, figured I could go for one more. At this point the dick was getting kinda flappy but I figured if I went hard enough it would work itself out. After a while of jerking, my arm started to get tired so I switched arms. Started again with renewed vigor and went basically as fast as I could, squeezing for more feeling. I started squeezing tighter and tighter as my arm got more tired and I kinda started to tense up everywhere, and suddenly I heard like a physical rip and felt excruciating pain from my Willy. Looked down to examine and there were broken blood vessels in a ring around the base of my dick. I then had to figure out how to get my pants back on and drive myself to the hospital without passing out. Ended up in a dick cast type thing for a few weeks, now I'm really horny but afraid to masturbate.

TL,DR: tried finishing too many times, almost tore my dick off.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that unfortunately I don't have any pics cause I was too embarrassed of the situation. It wasn't exactly a dick cast like one on your arm necessarily, but more of just kind of a thing to hold it in place while it healed. Peeing was interesting. They gave me some medicine to help it not fill with blood every now and then (like if I was to randomly pop a boner) which sorta helped. This was the first time I told anyone about this cause I was pretty embarrassed. Nothing like confessing your idiocricy to Reddit!

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There's so much going on here, from an apparent devotion to "slapping the ol' beef" that has nothing to do with, uh, feeling good, to the now-constant fear of re-injury via rogue boner. Truly, this guy has ruined one of the best parts of being a human, and he has only himself to blame. Consider this a warning, y'all.

One of the silver linings of the disastrous Trump administration is the fact that almost everyone in it, including the president, has left an embarrassing social media trail. For White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, that first became clear when people found out that he had been waging a lonely war against Dippin' Dots, repeatedly claiming they are not the ice cream of the future.

We all had a good laugh about that at the time, but now it appears Spicer may be an expert on the future after all. Because another old tweet unearthed by eagle-eyed internet sleuths this weekend seems like it could have been written today, even though it was posted back in 2012. This is straight-up eerie:

Having to work yourself to death while the president goes golfing yet again? That's literally an exact description of Spicer's professional life. WTF.

In fairness to Spicer, though, he's hardly alone in owning himself from the past. His boss is wayyyyyy better at it.

God bless Twitter.

Starting at 1pm PST today, fans can watch a live-stream of the public memorial service for Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, which will take place at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills cemetery, LA Times reports. People will be seated at the service on a first-come, first-serve basis, and the live-stream is available at www.debbiereynolds.com.

The memorial will feature music honoring the duo by James Blunt and Star Wars composer John Williams, and will have present the Hollywood memorabilia that Reynolds collected throughout her life.

Since the two died in late December, many touching reflections on the lives of the mother-daughter pair have surfaced, and today is sure to be an emotional tribute. Their nearly tandem deaths left the world stunned and gutted, and today is a beautiful opportunity for the public to share their tributes to them. According to the LA Times, Todd Fisher, Carrie's brother and Debbie's son, "organized Saturday’s memorial to give fans an opportunity to honor his mother and sister." He also revealed a few days ago that Debbie's final wish in the wake of Carrie's death was for "permission" to go and be with Carrie. Grab the tissues and tune in for what will surely be a moving tribute to their lives.

Ah, the drive-thru fast food experience. So convenient, so conformist, so constant. Everyone knows how the drive-thru works, and that is why they have become bastions of efficiency, serving us hungry Americans 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year.

So imagine your frustration when, for some reason, the line isn't moving. That was the situation recently at a Taco Bell in South Euclid, Ohio—pictured above, via Google Street View—and it got so bad that employees called the police to help them with the disgruntled customer holding everything up. Upon questioning her, they learned that she had an unusual complaint:

When they arrived, officers saw that the line was backed up by several car lengths, and asked the frustrated Taco Bell customer what the problem was.

According to the South Euclid police, she told officers the reason for the holdup was that Taco Bell was out of "Mild" sauce, her preferred condiment, and had only "Fire" sauce on hand.

She was also frustrated that Taco Bell would not give her the meal she ordered at half-price for the inconvenience she was facing.

Look, lady, I'll just say it: If you can't handle the Fire sauce at Taco Bell, you have no business eating tacos in the first place—not even what passes for tacos at Taco Bell. I am hereby revoking your taco privileges. It's bad enough that you harangued some people serving you food for minimum wage until they felt threatened enough to call the authorities, but to do it because they didn't have Mild sauce? Step the hell off.

The customer did, according to News 5 Cleveland, eventually leave—presumably with her now-cold tacos and no sauce whatsoever, which is no worse than she deserves for ruining everyone else's day. Not liking spicy food doesn't give you the right to be that salty.

On the internet, it's hard to know when you should hold back and when you should just buck up and say whatever's on your mind. But since most people go for the latter choice, it's important to know about a new meme that makes the expression of unpopular or unspeakable opinions a little more fun.

The image in that tweet comes from a classic Vine (RIP) posted on the video-snippet platform a couple of years ago. In that original footage, the serious, bespectacled, yellow-clad teen turns around to tell an apparent classmate: "You know what? I'm about to say it: I don't care that you broke your elbow."

It's an absurd comment after that build-up, and we never get context as to how the other person's elbow got broken or why yellow-shirt kid should care. Which makes it an ideal springboard for memes about announcing random stuff.

For example:

In a universe where people never seem to stop offering their take on absolutely everything, it's nice that we now have yet another way to do so.

I never thought James Blunt's hit single "You're Beautiful" was a good song. There is something about the way he croaks the words "you're beautiful" in that high-pitched whine that gave me the feeling he's the type of guy who stalks women who are not interested from afar and cannot take a hint to save his life. And it turns out that after all these years I was right for thinking that song was creepy as hell.

Blunt told the Huffington Post on Friday that "You're Beautiful" is not a love song, but is often misinterpreted as one. "Everyone goes, 'Ah, he’s so romantic. I want 'You’re Beautiful' as my wedding song,'" Blunt said. "These people are fucked up." Whoa. Blunt went on to explain what the song was actually about:

"'You’re Beautiful' is not this soft romantic fucking song. It’s about a guy who’s high as a fucking kite on drugs in the subway stalking someone else’s girlfriend when that guy is there in front of him, and he should be locked up or put in prison for being some kind of perv."

Looks like my creeper radar was spot on. Do you think that Blunt would have become a mega-star and went on to have the U.K.'s best-selling album of the decade if everyone knew that song was about a dude who was high as balls, ogling somebody else's girlfriend? Seems unlikely. But that doesn't stop Blunt from resenting the way he's been misinterpreted. "You get labeled with these things like, 'Oh, James Blunt. Isn’t he just a soft romantic?' Well, fuck that. No, I’m not." Wow, imagine being famous but getting a slightly different type of fame than the one you wanted? Sounds like the problems of a mediocre white man to me! Blunt has a new album, The Afterlove, out now, and you better believe I will never listen to it.

Standup comedian Michael Che, known for hosting Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update"segment, isn't afraid to tell Bostonians he thinks they live in the "most racist city" he's ever been to.

The Root reports that last week the comedian defended comments he made during a "Weekend Update" segment back in January when doing a standup show at Boston University. The crowd, which was probably mostly filled with drunk, upper middle class white kids (the tuition for BU is $49K per year), maybe didn't know how to take his comments. But Che told it like it is. He explained his reasoning for never apologizing for making controversial statements by saying he's just following our country's role models: "I’m just trying to be more presidential."

The comment in question was a joke that Che made about the super bowl. "I just want to relax, turn my brain off, and watch the blackest city in America beat the most racist city I’ve ever been to," he said. After that, Che said he faced a lot of backlash on social media. One woman in particular was especially angry with him, but instead of apologizing Che said back to her, "Talk to your closest black friend and ask them to explain it to you." Her response? "Touche." Love when a social media fight turns into a teaching moment and someone walks away feeling like they actually listened for once instead of screaming obscenities into the void.

It's frustrating that the real and negative experiences of black Americans make white folks lash out in fear of being called "racist," instead of inspiring them to listen and question their own sources of information. But Che's comments, his willingness to stand by them, and the fact that he asked white Americans to listen to their black friends--and that it worked--is a little bit of good news.

Ted Koppel, a decorated and semi-retired news broadcaster whose journalistic career has spanned six decades, this week mounted a special report for CBS Sunday Morning, where he's a senior contributor. The topic was "The great divide: Politics in the Age of Trump." In the piece, he lamented the media forces that seek to polarize people for their own gain—and to the country's detriment.

Of course, no talk of this subject is complete without a critique of Fox News, and in particular its most partisan loudmouth, Sean Hannity. In a stunning interview segment, Hannity made the mistake of putting a brash rhetorical question to Koppel: "You think we're bad for America? You think I'm bad for America?"

Koppel's response: "Yeah." Dude, my man is ice-cold. Watch Hannity's face.

Now, if Ted could just convince all the other 77-year-olds out there that Hannity is a hack ideologue, he might wipe out the Fox News audience as we know it.

United Airlines decided to enforce a nonexistent dress code and refused to allow two girls onto their flight on Sunday morning because they were wearing leggings. The Washington Post reports that a third girl, who was approximately 10-years-old, was also wearing leggings and was asked to change before she could board her flight from Denver to Minneapolis. She ended up putting a dress on over her leggings.

Shannon Watts, a political activist who is well-known for founding the gun safety campaign Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, was at the gate, saw the whole thing go down, and tweeted about the event to her 32.7K followers, bringing the incident to a wider audience.

United made a statement in response to her tweet and the ensuing outrage, saying "United shall have the right to refuse passengers who are not properly clothed via our Contract of Carriage."

The airline clarified that "this is left to the discretion of the agents," but made no mention of what constitutes being "properly clothed." Watts then tweeted a series of thoughts and salient observations about the obvious sexism of the incident.

After Watts took them to task and the ridiculous story started to pick up steam, others, including celebrities Patricia Arquette and Chrissy Teigan, joined in to discuss how outrageous it was that United was trying to police these girls' bodies.

In a statement to the New York Daily News, Watts said "I'd like (United) to understand that leggings are part of a woman's attire in modern day America. It is not inappropriate or sexual." United, please hear us when we tell you it is not sexual, it's just comfortable.

Quick tip, just in case you didn't know: Reddit's r/relationships is a treasure trove of bizarre anecdotes in the often bewildering world of romance, and the place to go whenever you feel like you can't handle your own love life. Because these people really give you a brand-new perspective on intimacy.

Case in point: this 23-year-old guy who says his girlfriend is utterly flummoxed by the fact that he prefers using a sleeping bag at night instead of putting actual bedsheets or blankets on his mattress. But, in the way of all such stories, he gradually reveals himself to be the obviously weird one in the couple.

I started seeing someone a few weeks ago. Things are going great all around. She's really kind and funny. I couldn't be happier.

So yesterday, for the first time, she came to my place for a few hours. It's a new place I moved in a few months ago. Everything went well and stuff but something strange happened when she saw my bedroom.

See, quite a few years ago(when I was still at my parents'), my blanket was worn-out and we had to buy a new one. For a few nights, while waiting for a replacement, I slept in a sleeping bag we had.

I actually really got used to it and it was very comfortable all around so I decided to keep sleeping in it. It's an amazing sleeping bag : warm, soft, fit. And I sleep VERY well in it so I saw no reason to change it. So when I left my parent's place, I, of course, took my sleeping bag with me.

Anyway, when my new girlfriend saw my sleeping bag, she was definitely taken aback. I explained it to her and we had a good laugh. But afterwards, when we were playing video games, she kept making weird comments about my sleeping bag. Like, she wasn't too obvious about it but I could feel her being a bit uneasy about it for some reason?

She said things like "You might want to buy new blankets. You'll sleep better". I assured her a few times that I slept splendidly but she kept insisting for some reason. She added "Beds are meant to have blankets, not sleeping bags!". She even said "Yes but you aren't camping here. You really should get new blankets. I can buy them for you if you want". I declined of course and repeated that it was just something I'm used to by now and wasn't really keen on changing it. Nevertheless, I did say I would think about buying new ones and she flashed me a great smile.

I really don't know what to think though. Now, I feel like the one weirded out. I'm very clueless at her reaction to my sleeping bag.

What could possibly be her problem with my sleeping bag? I mean, I really don't get it. Why would she care so much about what I sleep in? She's definitely not a controling person so this felt really out of character from her. I didn't have tons of relationships so I'm not sure what to do. I really don't want to get rid of my sleeping bag. We went through a lot together. Buying a new blanket feels a bit like I'm betraying it. And I'm sleeping amazingly in it!

I guess I could use an outside perspective from you guys. What do you think?

Oh boy, oh man, oh no. This guy is afraid of "betraying" his sleeping bag by purchasing additional bedding to make his girlfriend comfortable on the nights she stays over, he seems utterly oblivious as to the source of her confusion.

Take it away, other redditors:

Think the advice got through? We certainly hope so. Good luck, sleeping bag boy.

There is one thing I can say for sure: this newlywed couple's weekend was a lot cuter than yours. Orange Is The New Black actress Samira Wiley and show writer Lauren Morelli got married this weekend and it was funfetti themed because they share a mutual love of the rainbow-flecked cake, ET Online reports. Well, that's freaking adorable.

And they looked amazing too. I mean:

Morelli posted the same photo with the caption "wifey for lifey." Dang. If I was the type of person to say things like "couple goals" this would totally be where I say "couple goals," but like I said, I do not say things like "couple goals."

The couple, who got engaged in October 2016, met on the set of the show, but at the time Morelli was married to a man and in denial about being a lesbian. In an essay that she wrote in May of 2014 for Mic, Morelli explained how the process of writing the love story between two of the show's female leads, Alex and Piper, helped her come to terms with her own sexuality. "I was so deep in my own self-doubt that I constantly felt like a fraud. I was married to a man, but I wasn't straight. I found a mouthpiece for my own desires and a glimmer of what my future could look like."

Though divorce is never a positive experience, I'll remind us of this Louis CK bit on the subject of splitting up: "Divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it’s true because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce." He's not wrong. And it seems like these two are very, very happy.

Today, in "White Guys With Lots Of Confidence" news, former VP of the US Joe Biden said that he "could have won" the 2016 election. Damn Joe, where can I get me some of that unwavering self-assurance?

During a talk at Colgate University on Friday, Biden told students that the Democratic primary would have been "very difficult" but he thinks he would have pulled out a "W," the AP reports. His full quote to the room reads: "I had planned on running for president. And although it would have been a very difficult primary, I think I could have won."

Looks like "Biden would have won" - Biden, is the new and official rallying cry of the schmucks who were saying "Bernie would have won" after the election. I don't know what I find more frustrating: a bunch of white men putting down Clinton for her loss and celebrating Democratic in-fighting, or Joe Biden talking big game about how he could have won the election to a room of impressionable college kids while the country is suffering under Trump. And trust me, I want to love Joe Biden as much as the next guy! Those Biden and Obama memes are very cute! But...this annoys me.

According to the AP, Biden said his son Beau's battle with cancer is what kept him out of the race. And while he says he doesn't regret not running, he added, "Do I regret not being president? Yes." Makes sense that you wouldn't regret the grueling work of the campaign trail, but still wish you had the spoils. I think Joe Biden would make a great President, and sure, maybe he could have won, but there's truly not much use in talking about it now. Still would love just an ounce of that confidence though.

Stephen Hawking—the guy who made astrophysics cool before Neil deGrasse Tyson came along and started criticizing our favorite sci-fi films—has a familiar, unmistakable voice. It's the American-accented robotic voice that came with his "Equalizer" computer program, which he has been using to speak since 1986.

In those last 30-plus years, Hawking has had many opportunities to change the inflection or tone or timbre of this electronic system, but has always declined. That could all easily change, however, as a new short film from Comic Relief revealed. It seems that Hawking allowed a few celebrities to audition for the chance to be his new voice, and big names like Liam Neeson, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and Lin-Manuel Miranda all came out to give it their best shot.

Congrats to Stephen on his final choice! We've never heard anything like it.

We've all seen plenty of headlines about how President Trump has taken 4,058 golf trips in his first two months in office. Yet those stories are largely constrained to the facts that the press get from the White House about where Trump will be, and when—the kind of facts that often get passive-aggressively withheld as a means of punishing the "unfair" media.

That's where everyday civilian heroes like Instagram user @fwesdock_56 come in. This weekend, he spotted Trump doing the only thing lazier than playing golf—watching other people play golf on TV–in a dining room at his D.C. country club. "TRUMP IS LITERALLY AT THE COUNTRY CLUB," he wrote.

Now, you might think the story here is that Trump never does any work, even after his biggest political failure to date. Alternatively, you may be interested in the evident lack of security to prevent such unflattering images from leaking.

But actually, the best part of this whole thing is that @fwesdock_56 isn't some fringe political blogger who talked his way into Trump's club. He's a kid!

That's right, folks. Here in America, in the year 2017, a sitting president is getting owned by a kid for loafing around watching a rich-guy sport with other rich guys instead of working on any kind of policy that might benefit the people who elected him. Is this the future of journalism? Because that might not be so bad.