You know how we love a good wedding photobomb story. This one is pretty amazing.
Janessa McKillen and her husband, Brad, got married in Ontario, Canada last weekend. Before the ceremony, they decided to take some photos at the family farm that Janessa grew up on.
According to Buzzfeed, their wedding photographer, Rebecca Sprau, suggested that they pose near the cows, to get some shots that were "different and fun."
Unfortunately, a couple of the cows in the background were having a little too much fun. Janessa shared this photo to the Ellen Facebook page for the show's "photobomb" series.
Hi Ellen! I thought you might like this "photo bomb" from our wedding this past weekend on May 20th 2017 in Ontario, Canada. It might be safe to say Love was in the air all around us!
Yes, two cows who were, ahem, getting busy, photobombed Janessa and Brad's wedding day. As Janessa said in her Facebook post, "Love was in the air all around us!"
Sprau told Buzzfeed News that she "couldn't stop laughing" at the photo. She showed it to Janessa and Brad later that night, and they thought it was hilarious too.
"I actually walked around during the clean-up showing my family," Janessa said.
They weren't the only ones who thought it was hilarious. Janessa's photo has since been shared over 2,000 times.
Janessa explained to Buzzfeed that the cows in the picture are actually both female. "The bull is behind them," she said. "It's a natural thing, no funny business happening."
May Janessa and Brad, and those cows, live happily ever after.
Playboy model Dani Mathers is going from centerfold to community service.
Mathers pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of invasion of privacy for secretly Snapchatting a naked 71-year-old woman at the gym.
Dani Mathers was sentenced to 30 days of graffiti removal once a week (a real thing you can be sentenced to), $60 in restitution to the woman and will be placed on probation for 36 months.
She got off easy, considering she faced a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine after pleading not guilty last November.
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said the case exposes the true consequences of bodyshaming.
This case was about the consequences of #bodyshaming. Imagine if it was your mother, or if the victim was a trans kid struggling w/ identity
It's rare that you read such a heartwarming story about a penis transplant, especially since there have only been three recorded penis transplants in history. The second one took place in the US last year (USA! USA!). And last month, a 40-year-old South African man became the recipient of #3. It's actually a very sweet story.
The man lost his penis 17 years ago due to "complications from circumcision," the Daily Mail reports. On April 21st of this year, after a 10-hour surgery, he was able to have a new penis reattached from a donor. Good news: the new penis is in working condition, and the man can now use it to both urinate and, finally, to have sex again.
That wasn't working out so well for him before, for obvious reasons. "The man had been in relationships before, but whenever the question of sex arose, he bailed out," said Professor André van der Merwe, head of Stellenbosch University's urology department who led the operation. "That will no longer be a problem."
We don't know exactly what the patient has been up to since the operation, but we can imagine it involved a scene like this:
According to Van der Merwe, the patient had been "suffering with depression beforehand, and was even suicidal" but since the operation, he is much happier. Makes sense. Said the Professor:
He is certainly one of the happiest patients we have seen in our ward. He is doing remarkably well. There are no signs of rejection and all the reconnected structures seem to be healing well.
Isn't this the most heartwarming penis transplant story you've ever heard???
But there remains one problem with the penis: it is white. And the man is black. "That is the only issue left," said Dr. Van de Merwe, who explained "we have very few donors for this transplant procedure."
But fear not, in this era of groundbreaking medical technology, doctors have a solution to this problem, too. According to the Daily Mail, the patient will undergo "extensive medical tattooing" later this year to "color-correct" his white penis to a black penis.
Don't ever let anyone tell you not to follow your dreams.
Aly Raisman, an American gymnast who won gold medals in both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, is not about to take sexism lying down. Earlier today, the 22-year-old was passing through airport security when a male TSA worker made a negative comment about her body. So she took to Twitter to call him out.
Lady at TSA: "Gymnast? I recognized u by ur biceps" Man at TSA: "I don't see any muscles" & continues 2 stare at me How rude & uncomfortable
Seems like high-profile gymnasts deal with all kinds of B.S. from people who feel entitled to make comment on their bodies. Last year, Raisman's Team USA teammate Simone Biles also took to Twitter to call out body-shamers:
you all can judge my body all you want, but at the end of the day it's MY body. I love it & I'm comfortable in my skin 🖤
The late Chris Cornell's wife, Vicky, has written an emotional letter to her husband, published on Billboard's website. The official ruling from the Medical Examiner’s Office is that Cornell's death was suicide, but a full autopsy has not been performed yet, according to the Sun. Cornell, who was the lead singer for Soundgarden and Audioslave, was found dead in his hotel on the night of May 17, just after performing a sold out Soundgarden show in Detroit. His family thinks that the anti-anxiety drug Ativan that he took that night might have played a part in his death, Spin reports.
You were the best father, husband and son-in-law. Your patience, empathy and love always showed through.
You had always said I saved you, that you wouldn't be alive if it were not for me. My heart gleamed to see you happy, living and motivated. Excited for life. Doing everything you could to give back. We had the time of our lives in the last decade and I'm sorry, my sweet love, that I did not see what happened to you that night. I'm sorry you were alone, and I know that was not you, my sweet Christopher. Your children know that too, so you can rest in peace.
I’m broken, but I will stand up for you and I will take care of our beautiful babies. I will think of you every minute of every day and I will fight for you. You were right when you said we are soulmates. It has been said that paths that have crossed will cross again, and I know that you will come find me, and I will be here waiting.
I love you more than anyone has ever loved anyone in the history of loving and more than anyone ever will.
Always and forever, Your Vicky
The whole thing is heartbreaking. RIP, Chris Cornell. You are sorely missed.
"Spicer assumed he would be on the list," according to an unnamed "administration official," who said the Catholic Spicer has a "bucket list" of things he wants to do as press secretary.
On that list? Meeting the Pope. Not on that list? Being mocked mercilessly for wearing the wrong tie. Guess which one he's checked off so far?
At the papal meeting—attended by Melania, Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster—water turned to memes as the world laughed and laughed at some tremendously awkward photo ops.
But imagine how much more hilarious Spicer would have made it.
— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) May 24, 2017
Picture Spicer on the right—bumbling about the Young Pope.
Said a White House source to CNN: "Wow. That's all he wanted." The fact that Spicer didn't get to see the Pope should "very much" reflect on the president's view of him.
This might be the only time that liberals/anyone has ever felt bad for Sean Spicer.
Politics aside, this is as petty as it gets. A devout Catholic, @seanspicer should have been included on Trump's list to meet the Pope. https://t.co/JUjchH4q2h
The photo, which He told Someecards was taken by Stephen Crowley for the New York Times, shows that Macron has a seriously firm grip on Trump's hand. We are not saying that Trump's fingers are short, but it doesn't appear that he's able to wrap them around Macron's hand at all. It doesn't look so much like a mutual handshake as it does a masterful handgrab by Macron.
Maybe Macron worked his hands out a bit in preparation for meeting Trump, knowing what a mean handshaker our president can be.
Trump is trapped! He's on the receiving end of a handshake grip of death.
Trump's face tells the story of man who didn't realize until it was too late that he'd be outdone by his French opponent.
Trump's handshakes have become like the arm-wrestling matches in Over The Top, only nobody's turning their hats around backwards.
An Instagram hero from Belgium, Average Rob, has mastered the difficult-to-execute visual pun, delighting his 145,000 followers with photos of him literally sleeping with celebrities.
Obviously, all of this is photoshopped—but you have to respect the commitment to the pun.
Keep it up and maybe Average Rob will get so famous he can really make his dreams come true—one day you'll really take a nap with Kanye West, Rob, we believe in you.
If you think it's pretty random that Average Rob spends his time photoshopping himself sleeping next to celebs, you haven't seen the rest of his Instagram. The sleeping photos are just one theme.
The rest is even less coherent, but still enjoyable in an "oh, the internet" type of way.
Ice cream masters Ben & Jerry's have announced that their Australian stores will no longer allow customers to order a double scoop of the same flavor ice cream until Australia makes same-sex marriage legal. The reasoning seems to be, if two people of the same sex can't get married, then two scoops of the same flavor can't go together in one cone.
In a statement titled "Love comes in all flavours! It’s time for Australia to legalise marriage equality" on the Ben & Jerry's Australian website, the ice cream moguls wrote about why they've decided to change their scoop policy. It begins with a statistic:
In Australia, 72% of the population supports Marriage Equality, so why haven’t our leaders acted? Before the next parliamentary sitting on June 13th, it is time to stand up for fair and equal rights for all by letting our leaders know that we demand Marriage Equality!
The post continues, asking customers to imagine going to their local Ben & Jerry's shop and trying to order two scoops of their favorite ice cream flavor, only to be told it wasn't allowed. "You'd be furious," they predict. "But this doesn't even begin to compare to how furious you would be if you were told you were not allowed to marry the person you love."
It's an interesting move, and one that has been met with mixed reactions on social media. Some people love the new ban on same sex flavor scoops, while others don't think it'll make a difference. And some people are pissed off that their rights are being "trivialized," as they see it, by an ice cream company.
Shouldn't they be encouraging people to order two of the same in this pathetic attempt to monetise a cause in as trivial a way possible? https://t.co/sFnGtEccy7
This bullshit marketing stunt doesn't even have its facts right - like when the budget is held. Seems more like a sales deadline to me.... pic.twitter.com/IiYSsXdkY9
Between Grease: Live!, The Sound of Music: Live!, Hairspray: Live! and everything else that has been live (exclamation point!), we are living in the golden age of Things Being Ruined on Television. On Wednesday night, it was the beloved 1987 film Dirty Dancing's turn on the chopping block, and the internet reacted not with your average hate-watching the ABC remake but pure, fiery HATE.
Twitter was so traumatized, you'd think "Dirty Dancing" was the name of a Kentucky Derby horse who personally trampled on everyone's families.
The remake of 'Dirty Dancing' is the most traumatizing thing I have witnessed since Election Night '16. #DirtyDancing#LeaveClassicsAlone
The saga began Wednesday night, when comedian Paul Scheer opened an order of diaper pail refills and discovered nothing but a pair of used pants inside.
Just opened my Amazon order and in my box of diaper pail refills I found a used pair of pants and no diaper pail refills. pic.twitter.com/qLPTbpn1cs
Scheer is hilarious, and you've definitely seen him on The League, Veep, Workaholics—he's everywhere. He was also one-third of an absurdist sketch comedy team called Human Giant, so you're forgiven if you think this is 100% made up.
So did some of his fans... at first.
@paulscheer If real this is the best thing that has happened in 2017
Me with the pants. This isn't a joke. The box was empty except for these Used (and stylish) pair of pants. No note inside the pants. pic.twitter.com/Z5Suzwjoyx
So far, the commenters had come up with only one reasonable theory to assuage Scheer's fears that putting on the pants would somehow suck away his soul.
@Bleufire35@paulscheer The only thing I can imagine is someone wanted to keep the refills free, "returned" them and added the pants for weight?
@paulscheer@theyearofelan Clearly someone else returned this box under assumption Amazon worker would assume product was still in there. Autograph pants & return them
— Gus The Bus Driver (@busdriverlife) May 25, 2017
And the movement to #PutOnThePants continued, led mostly by The Bachelor producer Elan Gale.
@theyearofelan Hell No. That's some Blumhouse shit. If I put it on. I will become the man who wore those jeans.
Adult man Head of State President Donald Trump is at the NATO Leader's summit, as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is one of the most crucial military alliances of the post-war order. Trump is having so much fun with his new friends he feels comfortable enough to shove one out of the way so he can be the star of the photo opp.
It's not just anyone, it's Duško Marković, the Prime Minster of Montenegro, the newest NATO member. Look at the shove-ee's face as the tiny hand approacheth—we wouldn't be surprised if Trump slapped him on the ass on his way through.
This is the kindergartener who never learned to share and will be the line leader after recess at all costs.
Alec Baldwin really does an impeccable impression of him—in The Boss Baby.
It used to be that popping videos showed basic pimples being popped or blackheads being removed. If you were lucky, you might see the contents of the blemishes snake out in abundance. But now, thanks to Dr. Pimple Popper (a.k.a. Dr. Sandra Lee), the internet's most famous licensed dermatologist, popping fans have hundreds of videos of all sorts of removal procedures. No longer content to watch just pimples and blackheads being squeezed, we can now watch huge fatty lipomas being excavated and cysts erupting in fountains of pus and macerated keratin (wet skin cells). In today's offering from Dr. Pimple Popper, we see the intrepid doctor tackle a patient's huge lower back lipoma. Enjoy!
The real squeezing begins at 3:18 in the video.
There's a particularly good burst at 5:46, too. If you love watching these lipomas being removed, you might be into watching people clean the innards out of chickens, too. Just an idea!
A woman who goes by the username Ramphasto on Imgur recently posted a scary story about her cat's near-brush with death to keep other pet owners from making the same mistake she did.
Below is a picture of Ollie. He was Ramphasto's first pet, and as she explains in her post, "He was a healthy and happy cat until one day he began throwing up everywhere and eventually just stopped moving." It was at this point that Ramphasto realized she needed to get Ollie to an emergency vet, ASAP.
Once there, the vets found something lodged in Ollie's stomach and intestines, "some sort of hard mass." They advised her that Ollie would die unless he had surgery and that there was even a chance that he could die during the surgery.
The surgery would cost around $4,000, which, as a "broke college student," Ramphasto definitely didn't have. She asked her family, but they weren't able to help. The vet told Ramphasto about CareCredit, and she was approved. Ollie would be able to have his surgery, but there was still no guarantee he'd live. It was every pet owner's worst nightmare.
But thankfully, Ollie did make it through the surgery. And afterwards, the vets gave her a plastic bag containing the hard mass they'd felt inside him. It was hair ties. The cat had eaten so many of them that they blocked up his intestines; the vets had to cut the dead parts of his intestines and sew the ends together.
Ramphasto was devastated that the emergency was one she could have averted, had she just known better. On Imgur, she wrote,
When they showed me this bag of hair ties I wanted to hit myself. I felt so horrible for my ignorance. I would see him chewing up my hair ties and I would try to stop him, but I did not see or know he was actually swallowing them. I did not know the severity of the situation. The vet told me it's common for kittens and young cats to swallow weird things like hair ties or string. They said they once did surgery on a cat who swallowed an entire balls worth of yarn. I did not know cats did this and my cat paid dearly for my ignorance. I wanted to tell this story because I'm not sure if other people know this about cats. Ollie almost died. I don't want this to happen to other cats and cat owners. NEVER LET YOUR CAT CHEW ON ANYTHING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. THEY LOVE TO SWALLOW WEIRD SHIT
It's crucial that pet owners know this information. Cats love to play with and chew on all sorts of things that seem harmless, but aren't. According to CatHealth, hair ties, ribbons, rubber bands, yarn, string, and Christmas tree tinsel (just to name a few) are very dangerous for cats and kittens—they all have the potential to get trapped in your cats' intestines (or tangled around them) and possibly kill them.
The Humane Society website has information about what your cat should and shouldn't play with—a quick read might one day save your pet's life.
According to Ramphasto, Ollie is doing fine now. He's started sleeping in her arms every night, and even acting like a "big brother" to their little foster kitten, Finn. Ramphasto and Ollie were lucky, but so many cases don't end as happily.
Ramphasto wrote, "I hope this story was informative to some and helpful to others. I learned the hard way, but now I try to tell all cat owners I know so it doesn't happen to others."
No matter how hard the Trumps may try, the Kennedys are America's royal family.
May 29th marks what would be President John F. Kennedy's 100th birthday (but JFK was tragically blown away. What else do I have to say?). In a video from JFK's Presidential Library, his daughter Caroline Kennedy and her children reflect on his legacy and what he means to them.
It's particularly moving to hear from his grandchildren—Rose, Tatiana, and Jack Schlossberg—speak about the grandfather they never got to meet and who they learn about through both history and the large family of Kennedys.
The young Jack Kennedy Schlossberg, who is increasingly rumored to someday join the family business, discussed how JFK's vision that inspired 1960s activists can resonate with millennials today.
"My generation will inherit a complicated world with countless unsolved problems. Climate change is just one of them. But it’s the type of challenge I think my grandfather would have been energized about and eager to solve," he says.
"He cared deeply about the environment, about science and technology. And he recognized that only if America leads the world in solving global problem can we make sure that it’s done right."
"Great challenges are opportunities," Jack adds. "I know that we’re up to the task, but we have to demand action from our leaders, and we have to vote."
Writer Mason Cross recently shared a photo of his 11-year-old daughter's homework assignment where she answered the question: "things my teacher(s) can do better" with both brutal honesty and historical accuracy.
Props to this school, because that's a pretty brave thing to ask middle school students. And Cross' daughter, Ava, gave a brave response. She specifically went after her teacher's use of "collective" (class-wide) punishment. And she brought receipts. Historical receipts.
My daughter actually submitted this feedback at school. Not sure if I should ground her or buy her ice cream... pic.twitter.com/4v8Gjb9riv
"Not use collective punishment as it is not fair on the many people who did nothing and under the 1949 Geneva Conventions it is a war crime," she wrote.
Ava's criticism was so brutal that her dad couldn't decide if he should "ground her or buy her ice cream."
YOU CAN'T GROUND HER SHE'S OBVIOUSLY THE NEXT ELIZABETH WARREN. America needs her revolutionary, justice-loving spirit now more than ever and clearly Twitter agrees.
Her letter has gone viral and literally everyone thinks she deserves ice cream.
This woman is concerned she will actually be grounded and is very against it:
@MasonCrossBooks@AbiWilks Serious question - why would you ground her? Teacher asked for feedback, she gave it. Can't see even theoretically what's punishable here?
Celebrities complaining about being called "too skinny" is an issue that is very hard for many of us Americans to empathize with. But let's try for a second.
Modern Family star Sarah Hyland took to Twitter yesterday to respond to internet commenters who have deemed her "too thin" and are telling her to "eat a hamburger" and accusing her of "promoting anorexia."
In an epic rant (two parts, many pages), the 26-year-old actress explained that she hasn't had "the greatest year" and has had some health problems that have resulted in "physical changes." She can't work out, has "basically been on bed rest for the past few months," and is taking a steroid medication called prednisone.
"I have been told that I can't work out. Which, for me, is very upsetting," she wrote. "I am not a fan of 'being skinny'. Which many of you have told me that I am too much of."
She stressed that she is NOT anorexic or promoting anorexia and that she is "not in control" of how she looks. "I'm a 26-year-old woman who goes through more that you could even imagine on a daily basis," she wrote. "And I got to where I am because I am strong and didn't give up."
According to the Daily Mail, the actress was diagnosed with kidney displasia as a child and underwent a kidney transplant in 2012. The whole letter, which you can read here, makes a powerful and convincing statement against criticizing people's bodies and lives on social media (even famous people):
No one deserves to have their body picked apart and criticized by strangers, no matter what size or shape they are. And even if celebrity problems might seem like "luxury problems,"we don't know what they're actually going through. Like, in Hyland's case, a struggle with illness.
Let's hope she feels better soon. Then we can go back to bitterly resenting her for her perfect and amazing life!!!