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26 Utterly Random Memes Guaranteed To Make You Laugh This Morning.

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Do you hate waking up in the morning? Snap out of it! You've got so much to look forward to today, like laughing at these hilariously random memes.

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21 hilarious moms and grandmas who trolled the living daylights of their families.

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As we all line up this weekend to find the perfect card that celebrates our mothers and grandmothers, or better yet, we handcraft souvenirs expressing our love, it's important to keep one thing in mind: being a mom does NOT mean your sense of humor or partying is put to bed.

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In fact, for many, birthing tiny judgemental humans provides only more fuel for roast jokes and keeping it weird.

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This is to say, there are tons of moms and grandmas out there who are making the world a far funnier and more lively place than the rest of us. While they honestly deserve recognition year round, Mother's Day is an excellent excuse to appreciate their antics while kindly delivering them a balanced breakfast in bed.

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This list goes out to all the moms and grandmas who refuse to censor how they feel, the world be damned.

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Ben Shapiro is getting dragged home to Hell after storming out of an interview.

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Ben Shapiro, the conservative "intellectual" who spends his days tweeting "DEBATE ME!" at AOC, rose to prominence thanks to publishing headlines on the website he edits like "Ben Shapiro totally DESTROYS Leftists with FACTS!"

The "destoryer," however, became the "destroyee," when he was interviewed by British conservative Andrew Neil on the BBC.

Neil is known for playing the devil's advocate in interviews, and Shapiro lost his sh*t at even the slightest intellectual pushback.

When Neil referred to Georgia's new bill that will sentence women who had miscarriages to thirty years in prison, Shapiro accused him of being "on the Left," to which Neil calmly replied, "If you only knew how ridiculous that statement is you wouldn’t have said it."

The interview also brought up some old tweets of Shapiro's, such as his horrifically racist claim that "Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage." The "cool kid's philosopher" whined, "It seems to me that simply going through and finding lone things that sound bad out of context and then hitting people with them is a way for you to make a quick buck on BBC off the fact that I’m popular and no one has ever heard of you."

He ultimately yanked his microphone off and stormed out.

Shapiro attempted some damage control before the interview aired, apologizing for calling Neil a leftist, which is very much not the case.

To his credit, Shapiro is now acknowledging that he f*cked up.

The full 16 minutes is a wonder to behold.

Everyone's dragging him, and it's awesome.

Shame on Ben Shapiro. He should have had to carry the interview to term.

25 Savage Memes Anyone Who's Ever Been Cheated On Needs To See.

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If you've ever been cheated on these memes will make you laugh out loud. You know what they say, the best revenge is laughing at memes about your scumbag ex.

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30 people share the bonkers 'butterfly effect' moments that changed the course of their lives.

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Regardless of whether you were a fan of the 2004 Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart sci-fi vehicle The Butterfly Effect, most of us are familiar with the existential concept. The conceit is that one small action, one small change in course sets off a chain reaction that cumulatively makes larger changes to our lives, and the lives of others.

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While there are pretty obvious examples of this concept, hitting someone with your car is obviously going to change the course of their life, while not hitting them with your car will present an easier alternative, chaos theory is far more focused on seemingly tiny moments that fan out - moments you otherwise wouldn't notice.

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In a recent Reddit thread people shared the "butterfly effect" moments that changed the course of their lives and they are trippy enough to deserve their own screenplays.

1. plateishot met their wife for the wildest reason.

"I was going out to grab pizza and a case of beer for me and my roommate but he texted me that he had a stomach thing so I walked to a restaurant and ordered dinner at the bar and met a girl there and now we are married and have two kids because my roommate had diarrhea."

2. EhhLeeBee's life was saved by a hedgehog.

"I was walking to school and got distracted by a hedgehog that ran in a bush next to me then a big ass tree branch fell infront of me, would've crushed me if I didn't get distracted by a spikey little mouse scurrying in the bushes. I gave him a dead cricket the next day, he took it and ran off. God speed spikey mouse."

3. JackRusselTerrorist only exists because of extroardinary feats by their ancestors.

"I'm alive because my aunt was born.

My grandfather was conscripted into the Romanian army as a medic, and his unit was one of the many acting as a defensive barrier, covering the Nazi supply lines to Stalingrad. She was born, and he was called back to Bucharest from the front. While he was on leave, the Russians launched Operation Uranus, which decimated the axis forces. He recieved word that his unit had been completely destroyed. He was never reassigned, and in 1948, my mother was born."

"I'm also alive because a bunch of Romanian cows got sick. My other grandfather was a pharmacist, back when that meant actually making medicines, he was also a Jew. The town he lived in was largely agrarian, and their cow herds came down with some illness that was killing them. He whipped something up that cured them. The townspeople were very grateful to him. So grateful that when the chief of police heard that the Nazis were coming to town to take inventory of who lived there, he came to my grandfather's house with some train tickets for him and his wife. They escaped the Nazis, and never got caught. My father was born at the end of 1945."

"I guess this is the opposite of the butterfly effect, really. Rather than one small action blowing up into a much more important chain of events, two hugely improbable events are eventually lead to my birth(and obviously my extended family as well)... and now, I run ads on the internet."

4. Beer saved the lives of mikevankempen and their wife.

"The wife and I were having dinner in Hawaii one night on vacation. As we were getting up to leave, I noticed she hadn’t finished her beer. I told her she should finish the beer since we paid some ridiculous price for it. Fast forward 30 seconds and we leave the restaurant and are walking the 3 blocks back to the hotel. About 50 feet in front of us as we’re walking (were walking down the sidewalk on the left side of the road), a car comes flying out of a side street from the right and crosses through the street, hops the sidewalk in front of us, and smashes into a wall. If she didn’t finish her beer, we would have been smoked by the car and most likely squished between the car and the wall. We always finish our beer now."

5. emma527 met their friends because of seating arrangements.

"Nearly every single friend I have in college is because one day in my gen-ed health class we had to pick a seat that would become our seat for the semester. When I came in there weren’t many seats left, and the people I sat next to ended up becoming my best friends and introduced me to all of my other friends in one way or another."

6. Sweet-Lady-H's life was saved by adoption.

"If my biological mom hadn’t asked her parents to watch me for a couple hours and then left town, I wouldn’t have had the incredible and privileged life that I was given through adoption. My younger half brothers were raised by our biological mom and they are a total freaking mess (I’m more of a mom to them than their actual mom), and I would have been an absolute wreck also if she’d kept me. Instead I was given an amazing private education, all the sports and musical adventures, and most important a healthy, loving home with two parents who taught me that just because you share blood doesn’t mean you love, and just because you didn’t give birth to a child doesn’t mean you can’t be their parent."

7. ImaginaryxDoll's cousin missed an early death because she had to pee.

"Pregnant cousin usually takes the bus at around 5:10pm after work. She was about to hop inside the bus but she needed to pee really badly and the commute is about an hour long so she decided to go to the restroom instead and just catch the next bus. That 5:10 bus ended up falling from a cliff."

8.speedy-tomato followed their gut about work and it paid off.

"Received an incredibly high paying job offer to run our biggest competitor’s team. Told my boss, even though I loved my job, but it was more than double what I was making."

"Boss agreed to a reasonable raise, still not near the offer. I decided to stay because I genuinely loved my team/coworkers, and the money wasn’t enough to leave that happy place. In exchange, I had to take up another account that meant a business trip I didn’t have in the plans."

"Went on that trip and met my future husband. Couple of years later, we went on our honeymoon at a new resort in St. Lucia. Ran into someone I knew from home/work. Turns out, the team that I’d been given the job offer for had made so much money that they had booked the same resort to celebrate.

I sat there and went WOW. Life is nuts! Would’ve ended up there, either way."

9. FreddieGregg childhood moment of competition lead them to a lifetime of work.

"My dad raised me to be highly competitive.
One day in junior high I tried out for a play but didn't get in. Then I saw on the bottom of the cast list that they were looking for a student director to help out. I wasn't particularly interested, but another girl saw it at the same time as me and she did want it. I wanted to beat her. So we both applied and I got it."

"Long story short I was a theatre director for 15 years and have started directing films now (though now I prefer to write). All because of how competitive I am."

10. shitscrubber missed an AP class and found a passion.

"High school, I didnt get into the AP history class wanted. Changed up my schedule, including a different gym class, without everyone I knew. I was heartbroken. I really wanted to teach, and without an AP class senior year, I was screwed."

"Made a new friend in gym class, who was wearing a volunteer firefighter shirt. He had just joined. Seemed interesting, and he invited me to check it out. They paid for me to get my EMT. Fell in love with healthcare."

"Fast forward quite a while, and I'm an ER Nurse and 'precept' students and new nurses, teaching them how to survive in the ER. I also do public outreach and injury prevention. And I love it. Glad I missed out on my class."

11. nuckingfuts73 overdrafted once and caused four marriages.

"TL;DR: I over-drafted and caused four marriages and five babies."

"Longer version, I was just out of high school and new in town with no job. I was living off what savings I had left and my account went below zero without me knowing. I was overdraft charged like 10 times and owed $300+. I went down to the bank spoke with a teller and she ended up being a lifesaver. She worked with me and got all the charges removed. On top of getting the charges removed, we got to talking about my situation and she said that her son worked at a local restaurant and she would help me get a job. She was a woman of her word and by the end of the week I was working full time."

"Fast forward, I meet a cool dude who worked there, we became friends, I introduced him to my sister, they fell in love, got married and had two kids. His best friend came into town for the wedding and I introduced him to my roommate at the time, they fell in love, got married and had two babies. I also got my best friend a job at the restaurant where he met a girl working there, they feel in love, got married and had a kid."

"Right before I left I got my roommate a job at the restaurant, where he met a customer, fell in love, got married and had a kid.

As a bonus, my best friend, who I helped get the job repaid the favor and got me a job at a different restaurant, where I met a girl, fell in love and got married."

12. windowcircle's coworker caused a negative butterfly effect.

"My coworker has a big ego and thinks she knows best. We had a patient who received home visits. He had a medical condition that, if observed by a newcomer, might cause alarm, but we were very much informed about it and familiar with it. Instructions were that the condition was “normal” for him, not a concern in itself."

"One day the patient’s wife and my coworker seemed to have some kind of power struggle/disagreement about his condition and treatment and the coworker ended up calling an ambulance (for his long term unchanged condition that we were very familiar with.) He was taken to hospital and while there caught an infection. This infection impacted his eating and he lost a lot of weight fast. His condition deteriorated over the next few months and he passed away."

"Honestly it wasn’t unexpected that he might pass but it seems the specific scenario it ended up happening in stemmed from that unnecessary hospital visit."

13. pakiranian got arrested, and then their life started.

"Got arrested for growing weed, moved back home. Got first job I could at Ikea. After working there for over a year, randomly decided to check Craigslist for jobs and saw an opening at a cafe and they were hiring right then, so instinctively went for it."

"The cafe was connected and owned by one of the most popular brewpubs/beer gardens in the area. They hired me to host there, quickly worked my way up the ranks to eventually bar manager. Met girl of my dreams, we are now married with 2 amazing kids. Opened two more restaurants with them and currently assistant director of operations, overseeing three restaurants @ 3, 5, and 8 million a year in sales!"

"Love my job, love my family, love my life. No idea what I'd be doing if I never got arrested, or never applied for the cafe job."

14. One sixth grade field trip set the course of x_TheGoldenLite_x's life.

"At the end of 6th grade, my class took a field trip on a whale watch. That night, I saw a commercial for a documentary TV series on whales. Ever since that day, I wanted to grow up and protect whales from being hunted. Today I work in the military specializing in Marine Preservation."

15. ballards_anus_blood's teenage girlfriend connected them to careers and animals.

"When I was 18 I had a girlfriend, and her older brother owned a small company. He said to me "you know I think you'd be pretty good at this job." I'm 34 now, and have a legitimate career that I love because I dated a girl for a bit. I also had a cat for the better part of that time period because of the girlfriend. I'm a cat person now."

16. dnaltrop's life was set by one soccer match.

"Went to a soccer match on a Thursday night in August 2010, after years of turning down invites from multiple groups of friends. But this time it was for someone's birthday and they gave me a ticket, so I said WTH ok. Fell in love with my local team. I had watched soccer in hs and college and of course the world cup, but this, this was different. I rekindled friendships from years before through our mutual support of said team. Made new friends. Experienced new things because of friends and team. Drank more than I usually did. In January 2016 I got laid off from a job I had grown to hate after 8 years and a lot of rounds of layoffs, just waiting for my number to get called."

"That March I was getting antsy and bored at home because I was trying to save money while still looking for work and decided to get off my couch and go to an off-season supporters group meetup which I usually don't like to do btecause I'm not good at the social skills, and if I hadn't been unemployed I KNOW I would not have gone, but that night I met the woman I instantly knew I was going to fall in love with. Got a new job. Quit drinking. Finally went on a date with her six months after meeting her. Figured out I hated the new job. Quit that job."

"Moved to her city 35 minutes south in 2017 and have been working odd jobs part time and doing gig economy stuff. I moved in six months later. We had a puppy magically fall in to our lives within three days of just talking about maybe getting a dog, and it's my first dog ever and I am so happy about it. Got engaged. Got married in December and I'm so so so happy about it. She kept telling me Reddit was actually good. I actually signed up. I saw this post. I replied. Hi. We also just got a kitten."

17. quinessence's mom's friend changed their life.

"My mother had a deaf friend in middle school for about a week until she moved. She had learned a couple of signs and the alphabet to communicate with her. Had me a few years later and taught me what she knew. My middle school and highschool had large deaf populations, so I communicated with them with what I knew from my mom. It really fascinated me."

"Decided I wanted to interpret, took ASL in highschool, and eventually went to one of the three schools in the country to offer studies in interpreting ASL. Met my partner, moved in with him and his family, and now here I am. No longer majoring in ASL, but because my mom met a Deaf girl in fifth grade, I went to my school, met my partner, and found what I really want to do."

18. AgentCulper's life was almost saved by their water bottle.

"This happened two days ago.

It was early in the morning and as I’m about to leave for work when my mom reminded me that I forgot my water bottle on the table while I was walking out. For whatever reason I decided to go leave my backpack in the car and then walk back into the house for the water bottle. Well that took about maybe 10 seconds total. It started to rain heavily on my way to work and couldn’t see very well but I noticed the break lights of the cars ahead stopping suddenly and some moving off onto the shoulder and decided to slow down and put the hazard lights on for the people behind to slow down."

"Well turns out everyone was breaking because a 4-5 car accident had just happened seconds before. All the cars were scattered across the highway spread across the left/right shoulders and another had hit the crash barrier, basically a total bad mess. The drivers were still in their cars I guess processing what had just happened."

"After seeing it I immediately started to think that if I hadn’t gone back for the water bottle there’s a chance that I could have easily been in the accident or at least even closer to it. It tripped me out for the rest of the day."

19. NF-kBiologist's friend got relationship closure through a discarded note.

"Just last month, a friend of mine told me a story from his recent heartbreak. He (lets call him Mickey) had been with this girl (Minnie) for almost 4 years when out of nowhere, she told him she is leaving him and moving out. He had no idea the relationship was in jeopardy, but she dipped."

"Anyway, a few weeks go by. Mickey is hanging out with a coworker of his with who he had just recently met and ends up back at his place just to hang out. On the fridge, he sees a note in Minnie’s handwriting. The note detailed several issues in Mickey and Minnie’s relationship and so Mickey asks his new friend where he found this note."

"Turns out, this new buddy had gone to the same music festival as Mickey and Minnie a few months prior. The friend had found the note on the ground of the parking lot and thought “wow, what a sad and angry note. I’m going to keep this because it’s so raw and interesting.”

"The next day, Minnie came over to pick up some of her things. Mickey produced the note and it led to a long tear-filled conversation about their relationship and what went wrong. They didn’t end up back together, because despite the pseudonyms, this is no Disney story. However, the resulting discussion helped them both achieve closure in a meaningful way.

All because a random coworker found and kept her discarded note in a festival parking lot."

"Edit: a bunch of you are saying Minnie was hooking up with the coworker but I can assure you that was not the case. Mickey and Minnie had never even met the coworker, as Mickey and the coworker both work jobs for a massive company and had never crossed paths until well after Minnie left. Mickey and him had just become friends days after the breakup."

"As for why he kept the note, he’s just that kind of guy. He was moved by the content of the note so he kept it. They weren’t having an affair or anything - and if they were, that’d be well over because Minnie moved to another city the same week she left Mickey. Don’t be too cynical folks. Sometimes things just don’t work out."

"Edit 2: and for those thinking Mickey is partly at fault for the relationship ending and being oblivious to the reasons for her sudden leaving... of course he is. And he recognizes this. He recognizes his role in the situation and doesn’t hate her or anything. He just wants her to be happy and is heartbroken over both of their failures in making that happen. He’s a good guy, and he’s learning."

"Edit 3: for people saying I am in fact Mickey, I am not haha I’m happily married for one year and you could probably comb through my other comments to prove it if you really wanted but that would be boring. However, if you prefer the narrative that I am Mickey, far be it from me to dissuade you."

20. ASzinhaz procrastinated one day and found their major.

"I procrastinated one day in high school by watching a foreign musical on youtube. I ended up trying to learn the lyrics and eventually the language. That led me to discovering the field of linguistics, which I'm now majoring in. I don't know what I'd be doing now had I actually started doing my homework that day instead."

21. Sethrial flipped a coin to direct their life.

"Almost everything that has happened in my life for the past eight years is a direct result of me literally flipping a coin to decide between two colleges. I play the sport I do, have the friends I do, am dating the person I am, and very nearly every other aspect of my life, is because a nickel landed on heads."

22. A conversation about Goldfinger led reallytinyyeti to the love of their life.

"When I was at college, I had this buddy who I used to give a ride to and from the campus each day because we lived a couple of streets apart."

"One morning I’ve got Goldfinger (the ska band, not the bond movie) playing on my CD player in my car. He’d never heard them before, really dug it and asked me about them. It was the day before Easter break and he was like “cool, I’ll check them out”. Cut to two weeks later, he’s telling me how he has bought all their records, got his long-distance girlfriend into them when he visited her and has basically listened to nothing but them since we spoke about it. I feel good for helping a buddy discover his new favourite band, but think nothing more of it."

"That summer me and this dude have a falling out (long story, but the tl;dr is that he screwed me out of nearly £1000) and a bit later, I stop seeing him around. After a while a mutual friend tells me he’s dropped out and moved away."

"The next summer, A friend of mine asks me if I want a Ticket to see Reel Big Fish that evening. His sister was supposed to go but is really sick and can’t. I say sure and tag along. We get there and it turns out the support band is Goldfinger, which is pretty cool."

"So we’re standing there, having a beer in between bands and I clumsily knock some girl who is walking past’s drink out of her hand. I turn and apologise and offer to buy her a replacement."

"While we’re waiting the bar we get to talking and we’re getting on pretty well. Me and my friend end up hanging out with her and her sisters the whole night, having a great time and me and this girl end up exchanging numbers."

"Cut forward again a couple of years. Me and said girl have been together basically since that night. We’re moving in together and it’s going really great. The night we move in together, we’re sitting amongst all our boxes of shit on the only seats that are unpacked and I say something like; “Imagine if I hadn’t taken [friend’s] offer to go to that RBF show that night. We’d never have met” She’s then like “Not only that, imagine if you hadn’t bumped into me and we hadn’t got to talking. Our original plan that night was to leave after Goldfinger played as they were the only band we were bothered about seeing”

"I commented something about how I really liked them or something, I forget what. And then I ask how she got into them and, I’m paraphrasing but the long and short of it was: “Oh my sister got me into them. Her douchebag ex-boyfriend got her into them. They were long distance while she studied in the US. They used to go to shows together when he would visit. He’s actually from round here I think”

"Yup. Same dude that I used to give rides to. Bonus butterfly effect: my buddy who was with me at that show actually ended up marrying the sister in question last year.

TLDR: Managed to set myself and a buddy up with serious relationships, just by introducing some random dude who I used to give a ride to school to a band that I liked."

23.Trepanated's ex-wife met Bradley Cooper because of a coin and a wolf.

"(Obligatory) Not my story, but my ex-wife's. We're still friends though.

So I think this story takes place in the summer of 2003. Might have been 2004, not sure, but I think it was 2003. She was up in Cape Cod because her grandmother had a house out in Eastham. Her whole family is up there visiting, her parents, some cousins, a bunch of people. One day she borrows her mom's minivan to drive into Boston to meet up with a friend. She's driving back late at night, and the road is pretty deserted. All of a sudden she sees some kind of animal up on the road ahead. She's not sure but she thinks it might be a wolf. She slams on the brakes."

"I'm talking, shit-goes-flying kind of slam on the brakes. It's scary and chaotic and the wolf, or whatever it is, eventually runs off. She drives the rest of the way to her grandmother's house, and tries to discreetly tell her dad what happened. But the oldsters in the room have cottoned on to the fact that a secret is being shared and they all want to know what happened. Eventually the story comes out. My wife's grandmother, who, God love her, would go on to live to the age of 97, responded by saying, "that's why women shouldn't drive at night." I found this response absolutely hilarious and for years I enjoyed making reference to it at inappropriate times and circumstances."

"Anyway, everyone goes to bed and all seems well. Until the next day when my ex is driving the same van back out towards Boston. Now, Cape Cod is pretty much a 1-way-on, 1-way-off kind of an island. And I forgot to mention but it's the end of a holiday weekend, I think it was the 4th of July. So traffic is really crazy. Eventually she is at a standstill on the main road for so long, she puts the van in park to wait."

"And then when traffic moves again she can't get it back out of park. Like, it just won't shift out of park, no matter what she does. She turns the car off and back on. Nope. Nothing. So now she has a car in murderously awful traffic, on a road that (if memory serves) only has 2 lanes to begin with, and she can't move. She can't get out of the way. She's stuck and making already bad traffic much worse. She's by the side of the road and people are driving by screaming obscenities at her. And she's thinking, "believe me, I would loveto fuck off right about now but this car is broken and I don't know what to do!"

"So after what seems like forever, eventually these 2 guys stop to help. And they're trying to figure out what's going on. It's a really weird problem and it's taking them awhile. And the whole time, my ex is thinking, this one guy looks kind of familiar. Like, she keeps eyeing him, you know. Trying to figure out if she knows him. And if she does, where does she know him from."

"Now, at this point, I'll mention the answer to the car riddle, which the 2 guys sadly never figured out. It turns out, (and I know how crazy this sounds), that the following had happened: when she stopped short for the wolf, a coin somehow got lodged in the cigarette lighter. It eventually caused a short circuit. The circuit that blew was also connected to the gear shifter. So when the short happened, she was no longer able to shift. Insane."

"Back to the 2 guys. The one guy notices my ex noticing the other guy and trying to figure out why he seems familiar. And so finally he says, "Do you watch Alias?" And that was when my ex realized that one of the guys who stopped to help her was Bradley Cooper."

"Unfortunately, selfies weren't really the standard at the time that they are today, so she didn't think to include herself in the picture she took of the 2 guys. But she does have the picture of Bradley Cooper and his friend, the nice guys who stopped and tried to help her with her car trouble. And she didn't recognize him at all at the time, but much later she realized, from looking at the picture, that the other guy was Bryan Callen."

"So, to review, some kind of animal was hanging out in a road on Cape Cod one night, and as a result my ex-wife met Bradley Cooper and Bryan Callen."

24. Armourdildo found their calling through one small decision.

"So my then girlfriend now wife were planning on going away travelling for a very long time. Several years. The night before we left I was just packing my things and at the last minute I decided to include some camera stuff. I had an SLR that I didn’t really use too much. I very nearly didn’t bring it because it was big and space was at a premium."

"While we were away one of the things we did was work in a wildlife rehab centre. At the time we were there is was very quiet, very few baby kangaroos to look after. But we had to be ready as that could change in an instant. Like in one day 3 could come in and boom. Full time job. I used this spare time to really get to grips with the camera and learn about photography in general."

"Now I’m a wildlife cameraman. Had I decided to leave the camera I never would be doing what I’m doing. Which is sitting in a freezing cold shed for hours at a time waiting for some animals to do something that they’re not doing."

25. avocadopixels' tribute to a dead friend led to an entire relocation.

"Grew up speaking Spanish so in high school my mom made me sign up for French. I didn’t really care, but figured whatever at least it’s something new. I was a good kid, bit of a cut up with absolutely 0 direction."

"In that class I met a girl and we sort of became friends. She got sick that year, cancer. It was horrible. Visited her in the hospital, got close to her family (still am), she passed the following year."

"French it turns out was her favorite subject and her dream had been to study abroad. Her parents asked if we (her friends from that class) could do that for her."

"The years went on, I worked every summer try to save up to study abroad. I noticed the others who had made the promise weren’t making moves towards it, so I worked even harder. Finally went for a semester my 3rd year."

"Tbf I always enjoyed French, but it wasn’t a passion. Except that semester something kind of shifted. Came home, finished undergrad, then got into a masters in French. The whole time my friend’s mom is excited, feeling like my friend is somehow vicariously living through me."

"I graduated from my masters and then moved back to France. Been here 3 years now, and May 1st was the 11th anniversary of my friend’s death. As I type it out it’s not so outwardly obvious, but the entire time it’s been so clear for me that she’s been with me on this journey."

26. Nimbus-Rose's parents met through a wartorn relocation.

"IDK if this counts, but during the Sri Lankan civil war my dad and his family were chased out of their home and were forced to seek shelter at his cousin's house a couple town's over. His cousin's only had one neighbour and that neighbor was my mom and her family. They used to meet up at the fence dividing their lawns and talk for months. One of the pictures from their wedding was them at that fence."

27. Turkey_Tron installed Tinder and was soon debt free.

"Was pretty lost after graduating University. Ended up having a few too many drinks, installing tinder, and swiping exactly one time. Matched with the first person and we started dating, doubled down on staying in that state rather than going home. Got a shit job for no money that ended up working out tremendously, promoting me, sending me overseas to an amazing new country and paying off 6 figures of student debt in 3 years with money in the bank. All because I moved my finger slightly to one direction."

28. YWGtrapped's breakup location lead them to a new home.

"Had a surprise and rough breakup and decided to treat myself to a vacation somewhere I'd always wanted to go. Loved it more than I expected, and six months later I emigrated there."

29. Comatose22 got their ears pierced, and the rest followed.

"Getting my ears pierced the day after I graduated high school got me where I am today. I worked at McDonald’s at the time and was scheduled to work that night. Before my shift, my girlfriend at the time convinced me to get my ears pierced. Well, when I showed up to my shift with these clear ear studs in, my manager gave me an option. Either take them out, or go home. Being only 17 and not taking anything seriously, I went home."

"On my way home, I called that girlfriend’s dad, and asked if I could work with him laying tile. He gave me a chance, and I quit McDonald’s that day. Worked with him for about a year until the 08’/09’ recession caused us to run out of work. I got laid off."

"4 months later, I land a job in a new hospital doing admitting in the emergency room. Did that for 2 years before I got my phlebotomy certification. Been doing that for a few years and now I’m in my final semester of nursing school. I attribute everything I’ve done to that day my ex girlfriend pressured me into getting my ears pierced. Who knows how long I would have stayed at McDonald’s."

30. seizer1975's fifth grade decision set their life course.

"Entering middle school, I had to choose between foreign language or music. I made my decision. My mother came into my room later that night to make sure I was certain in my choice. I chose music, which led me to pilot training, to radio, to my ex-wife, my kids, Massachusetts (twice), my new partner and a career in IT. I can trace my entire adult life to a decision I made in fifth grade."

20 years ago, a doctor published a study. It was completely made up, and it made us all sicker.

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Once upon a time, a scientist named Dr. Andrew Wakefield published in the medical journal The Lancet that he had discovered a link between autism and vaccines.

After years of controversy and making parents mistrust vaccines, along with collecting $674,000 from lawyers who would benefit from suing vaccine makers, it was discovered he had made the whole thing up. The Lancet publicly apologized and reported that further investigation led to the discovery that he had fabricated everything.

In the intervening years, millions have been spent on studying this further to see if there was anything that could connect autism and vaccines. This is what they found.

If you think science is a real thing, you could share this. I'll owe you one.

This article was first published by our partners at Upworthy.

Man sabotages girlfriend's vegan diet and 'accidentally' gives her acne. It gets darker.

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Let me count the myriad ways men try to control women's bodies. Besides Georgia's newly instituted abortion bill, they like to tell us how to dress, how we should be fucking (or not fucking), and how to eat. One terrible Redditor - redundant, I know - took the lattermost to heart and undercut his girlfriend's veganism in a cruel way that had the Internet sounding alarms. Feast your eyes upon this f*ckery and reassess your attraction to men:

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There's...a lot to unpack here, and the subtext is dark. Like, much darker than the average 'TIFU' post. This man's live-in girlfriend, who cooks all their food (red flag #1), is vegan - and he's aware that dairy products inflame her skin. But he's sick of vegan food and wants to indulge in 'mac and cheese with cut up hot dogs,' a dietary preference that he bizarrely links to masculinity. We're all familiar with the stereotype of a MAN downing mac and cheese with hot dog chunks, like a highly masculine guy's guy, right? Right. So...the solution is to buy some macaroni, cheese, and hot dogs, and make this delectable dish, as he's responsible for grocery shopping, correct?

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But no. It's more logical for him to sabotage his girlfriend's diet (red flag #2), which she's adopted partly for cosmetic reasons, in an attempt to prove she's wrong about her own body/eating habits...so that she'll prepare meals including dairy? And once this experiment proved false, instead of admitting its fundamental wrongness, he claimed it was 'for her own good'? (red flag #3).

This whole scenario reads like an attempt to control his partner - and it absolutely falls on the spectrum of abuse. He started with substituting soy for dairy, but could graduate to switching out birth control for placebos. Possessive men sometimes trap women into staying by sabotaging their contraception. Apparently this girl's skin got 'insects about to hatch out of her skin bad'. Who's to say her boyfriend wasn't making her less attractive to diminish her self-esteem, or to keep potential suitors at bay? I hope she leaves ASAP, and I'm not the only one.

It's true: horrifying as this anecdote might be, what isn't he revealing? What's described might be the tip of a larger, more dangerous iceberg. And even scarier is that his girlfriend doesn't know what happened - not unless she's come across this tweet, or the original Reddit post before he deleted it. Please, ladies, don't ignore red flags or gut feelings that things are amiss. You deserve to be safe, happy, and partnered with someone who respects boundaries.

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Woman’s viral thread breaks down why the Georgia ‘heartbeat bill’ is about more than abortion.

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On Tuesday, Georgia's Republican Governer Brian Kemp signed the draconian "heartbeat bill" into law. Now, under this law, women are barred from procuring an abortion as soon as a heartbeat is detected which is in many cases as early as six week.

Most women aren't able to fully detect an abortion until at least four weeks after, and that's if you're able to access a clinic that early, even if a woman were to catch it on time, many providers don't offer abortions until at least 5 or 6 weeks in.

In action, this bill criminalizes abortion and places the rights of a fetus over a full-grown human woman, this places women in the danger of being jailed for terminating a pregnancy, and even the exceptions of rape and incest are only accepted if a woman files a police report.

Most women who have just been traumatized AND gotten pregnant don't have the time, resources, or emotional support to go to the cops, who have been historically dismissive about seeking justice for rape victims.

While the ACLU already has plans to challenge the law in court, discussion has been spilling out on Twitter, with many women fearing what this means for the future. At a quick glance, this law is primarily about abortion and reproductive rights, when you consider the larger implications, it's about so much more.

In a now viral thread, the Georgia-based writer Laurel Snyder shared how women in her home state are feeling, and what this bill means about women's rights on a larger scale.

She laid out how criminalizing abortion puts women in serious danger (on multiple levels) and fully legalizes the public's entitlement to women's bodies.

She even took care to share that she is religious, and understands the notion of religious conviction around abortion, but this law completely goes against what Jesus would have wanted.

She went on to say that she will drive women to their abortion appointments out of state, and that no law will stop women from seeking them out, which is precisely why this type of legislation is so brutal.

She capped off the thread by sharing a myriad of resources people could both donate to, and seek out for themselves.

Many other women weighed in on the thread with similar thoughts about the violations the law will inevitably wreak.

One woman pointed out how GOP politicians routinely handwring over fetuses while refusing to implement safer gun laws for school aged children.

Sadly, under Trump, this horrific violation of rights does not feel like a surprise - there are more brewing in the White House chamber, which is all the more reason to stay loud, get involved locally, vote in every election, and possibly construct some guillotines.


People are actually naming their kids 'Khaleesi' and after other GoT characters, according to Social Security.

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Hot gossip from the Social Security Administration!

That's right, the SSA unveiled the top baby names for 2018, and the top ten for both boys and girls are hardly surprising. I hope all the Liams and Emmas out there like the first letter of their last name.

Daycares are overrun by little Isabellas and Jameses, classic, timeless names that are likely not informed by popular television shows.

Rather than pick names from their families or the bible, there are people out there naming their kids after Game of Thrones characters, and a few Westerosi names actually cracked the top 1000.

Even though A Girl Has No Name, "Arya" has been climbing steadily in popularity, with exactly 2545 baby Aryas born in 2018.

Arya was the 119th most popular girl's name in 2018, and it's only going to get more popular after we watched Arya save humanity and slay the Night King.

Arya, however, was a name before Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, but one made up word from the brain of George R.R. Martin has broken into the mainstream: Khaleesi.

"For 2018, the number of births with name Khaleesi is 560, which represents 0.030 percent of total female births in 2018," the SSA writes.

There are 560 little girls with Dothraki names who are going to want to see the show to understand it, and, um...they might want to wait until they can read the subtitles for all the High Valyrian.

A whole bunch of baby nerds are likely to little Khaleesi

Joe Murphy, a journalist at NBC News, tallied up the number of babies with other Westerosi names, and Sandor and Gregor might be duking it out over the Play Doh in a few years.

There are also 8 Berics, 29 Sansas, and an 58 tiny Tyrions.

It's going to be a fun Name Day celebration for the baby Khals!

22 hilarious tweets from women this week that have nothing to do with Trump.

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It's Friday, y'all! You know what that means: schedule that out-of-office reply, put your feet up, and start drinking at 5:01 PM. Just kidding! Unless you're into that. I'm not here to judge, but to help you relax as the weekend kicks off.

With that mission in mind, I've rounded up some hilarious tweets that women wrote this week. With our reproductive rights endangered, Ben Shapiro throwing a fit on television, and learning that Karlie Kloss is Jared Kushner's sister-in-law, the past seven days have been harrowing. It's time to tune out that chaos, browse Netflix, and let your brain take a break. You deserve it! Note: brain breaks pair best with wine.

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Just 25 Of The Funniest Memes This Week.

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Get ready to laugh, for real. We're not talking about the fake chuckle you give your boss when you're trying to kiss up for a promotion. This is the real thing. You might even snort a little, but don't be embarrassed. Here are the funniest memes we came across online this week.

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Woman's viral thread about 'harrowing Lyft experience' inspired others to share their stories. Buckle up.

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We're all familiar with the perils of rideshare apps. Whether you'd prefer to keep surge prices from draining your bank account or maintain distance from potentially crazy co-passengers, I understand opting for public transportation. But who hasn't taken a Lyft/Uber/generic competitor home after stumbling out of a bar at 1 AM, desperate for reheated leftovers and sleep? They're quick, convenient, and keep people from driving drunk, filling a void in our overconnected, fast-paced world. But there's a dark underbelly to ridesharing that author Kelly Barnhill of Minneapolis recently highlighted on Twitter.

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The Newberry Medalist did what she does best and put her story into writing. It's a long one, so buckle your seat belt and pack a snack.

A Lyft driver asking to stop for gas would unnerve me, actually. I'm a frequent ridesharer and a driver's never asked to do this.

Oh no. The blatant come ons have begun. Rideshare drivers have absolutely hit on me, but never this flagrantly. This would DEFINITELY make me nervous.

Is the traffic in Houston notoriously awful or something?! At this point, my brain would be sounding multiple alarms.

The socialization aspect of this interaction is key. Girls are conditioned to finesse uncomfortable situations, lest they escalate or go further awry - or, God forbid, a man is angered.

Ack, my phone's pesky surveillance capability! Always tracking my whereabouts so my location can be pinpointed at all times!

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This response from a company that went public with a valuation of $24 billion is...callous, to say the absolute least.

Lyft: come for the colorful mustaches, stay for the unsatisfactory customer service!

While Kelly's thread primarily concerns riders' safety, 'employees' of these companies get a raw deal. They're freelance contractors whose labor rights are compromised.

Many people shared similar stories, as Kelly intended.

Stay safe out there, y'all.

People are dragging Constance Wu's response to 'Fresh Off the Boat' renewal and it's hilarious.

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Constance Wu.

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She's an Asian-American actress whose work you've seen in 'Crazy Rich Asians' and ABC's sitcom 'Fresh Off the Boat,' which is based on Eddie Huang's memoir. She's been starring in the show since 2015 and her response to its renewal for a sixth season was...interesting.

She explained her outburst after people linked it to news of the show's renewal.

This morning, she further addressed what had become a PR problem. A popular actress lamenting her continued involvement in a successful project? The optics don't look great, honey!

Her reaction angered a certain segment of fans, including prolific tweeter Yashar Ali, whose feedback stirred the pot further.

Not that Constance didn't have her sympathizers.

But the best aspect of this controversy? The jokes, y'all. So many great jokes.

After all that excitement, let's conclude with a measured take and reflect on what we learned:

Alyssa Milano called for a 'sex strike' against Georgia's abortion bill. The twist? Pro-lifers support her.

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Though best known now as a proponent of the #MeToo movement, Alyssa Milano's activism began in the 1980s.

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She appeared on Phil Donahue's talk show with Ryan White, a teenage boy who'd contracted HIV through a blood transfusion. HIV was a misunderstood and highly stigmatized virus at the time, so Alyssa kissed Ryan's cheek to demonstrate that it wasn't easily transmittable. She's remained active in social and political causes, but her latest call to arms is a misfire - depending on your perspective.

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Alyssa's Lysistrata-style proposal had two unintended effects. It earned the ire of liberal feminists, who found her form of protest misguided and politically regressive.

And it thrilled conservatives who oppose abortion rights. That's right: a Hollywood actor's feminist activism is pleasing anti-choicers across the United States.

We finally found bipartisan common ground: dunking on Alyssa Milano in her Twitter mentions.

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23 Memes JC Isn't Going To Be Happy You Laughed At

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These memes are a little dirty, a little bit country, and a little bit rock and roll as hell. Laugh now, repent later.

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19 people share things they love about their moms. Happy mother's day!

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It's Mother's Day!

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The day to celebrate mothers, grandmothers, mentors, aunts and anyone who has taken on a mother-like role in your life is upon us. While not everyone has a perfect relationship with their mom and will be happily sipping mimosas at mother's day brunch today, taking a moment to honor a woman who inspired and nurtured you is truly what the day is all about.

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To help celebrate all the women who carried us around for nine months, changed our diapers, and taught us how to talk and walk only to deal with us being bratty teenagers, Reddit users started to share what they loved about they moms. Read this, and call your mom immediately! She deserves it.

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1. Aw, "babypigeongang."

When I fall asleep on the couch, she brings me a blanket and covers me with it

2. Yes! "Aquarigo."

Despite her growing up in an abusive atmosphere, she broke the cycle and has successfully raised three children in a very stable family. I will always love that about her.

3. Faith is key, "croatianscentsation."

Up until the minute she passed, she believed she could overcome any obstacle in life. RIP mom

4. Damn, dream mom "Moist_Butter."

She isn't pushy with her parenting techniques and let's me come to her, she owns up to her mistakes and admits when she's wrong, she's so positive, she loves unicorns and she's basically an 'it gets better' poster girl. Love her so much lol.

5. This is adorable, "Jacksonkisses."

Even at 30 years old, when I get good news or bad news, she's the first person I want to call. And she ALWAYS picks up.

6. Wow, "3bola_Virus."

I'll try to keep this short: When I was in high school (freshman or sophomore year, I forget which) my parents took me clothes shopping. I'm a very lazy individual and was perfectly fine wearing under shirts and basketball shorts every day so clothes shopping was a huge chore for me. After being difficult for about 30 straight minutes, I noticed my mom was getting tears in her eyes. I asked her what was wrong, and she told me that she felt like a failure because she couldn't get new clothes for her kids. She grew up very poor and always had to get clothes from garage sales, salvation army, donations, etc. and never had new clothing as a kid. And she used to tell my dad she never wanted to do that for their kids. After that I never complained about clothes shopping again. So what I love about my mom is that no matter how small it might be, anytime she can give me or my siblings something is the best day ever for her.

7. This is so nice, "DynaRyan25."

She’s just honestly my best friend. We talk on the phone daily and the conversation comes easily. She’s an amazing grandmother to my son and I have so many fond memories of her growing up. She never made me feel like a burden and she was always around to help with anything I needed. I definitely did not appreciate her enough growing up but now that I’m a mom I strive to be half the mom she was and still is.

8. This is amazing, "JaniePage."

She staged a one woman intervention on me, literally walking through my front door at the moment I was vomiting in my sink after having been on a five day bender.

She fully expected me to yell and scream and get violent in my desire to keep drinking. Instead, I just started sobbing and apologizing for hurting her and my Dad so much; for making them so worried. She was willing to risk me hurting her in order to get me to stop.

I'm now nearly three years sober, thanks to my Mum ❤

9. Hell yes, "wr3cknball."

She honestly doesn’t care what anybody else thinks of her.

10. Champion, "Snackpck."

She worked her ass off to provide me with a roof over my head and 3 hot meals a day.

11. A+, "LordJonMichael."

My mom hosts all the adult children and their families over to her house for family dinner every Wednesday night. We all have young kids, so it’s nice to get them all playing while we relax.

12. Queen, "Chakitato."

She's very sweet, she calls me the best mother's Day gift because my birthday is the 11th and mother's Day is always around the same time

13. Empaths for the win, "notcleverenough111."

She has the biggest heart. If she even thinks she was mean to a person or caused harm, even unintentionally, she will cry. If she sees someone else upset, she will tear up with them. She taught me empathy.

14. Uh oh, "CharlesDeBalles."

She is the strongest, most self sufficient, most respectable person, let alone woman, I've ever known. She knows what she wants, and she will get it, no matter how much hard work it will take.

She can be difficult sometimes (I've definitely heard the words "let me speak to you manager" more than once in my life lmao), but I wouldn't be half the person I am today without her influence in my life.

15. That's RIGHT, "AmLimited."

She made sure I got all my vaccinations on time.

16. This is impressive, "prysmyr."

She is financially savvy and on top of things. Taught me well. Now a 24 year old with a college degree, car fully paid off, no debt, and half a years salary in savings. Thanks momma

17. This is great, "puggypugs."

My mom never really says I love you but she always likes to give me a plate full of fresh and perfectly cut fruit to me in my room at random times. It doesn’t seem like much but I know how rare it was for my mom to get fruit growing up since she was so poor so I can tell it’s her way of affection.

18. Inspiring, "WritingScreen."

My mom is a bad ass woman. Always been successful, but currently following her dreams as she enters her 50s

19. #1 mom, "Dillbitz."

Wonderfully crude and funny as hell. Always there for you no matter what. Can make anything taste good.

There's only one thing 'Game of Thrones' fans want for Mother's Day. Hint: It's a murder.

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If you're like everyone else in the entire world and have some serious dragon-fever for "Game of Thrones" right now, you probably have come up with a string of crazy theories for how the series is going to end.

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For tonight's Mother's Day episode, though, there's only one thing that the entire internet seems to agree on and it's that Queen Cersei Lannister, who is wrongfully sitting on the iron throne right now as ruler of the seven kingdoms, must die. That, and the fact that it's mother's day and she is probably the world's worst mother, it would be a very fitting time for her long-awaited demise. Whether she will die tonight by her twin brother and ex-lover ( honestly why do we watch this show?) Jaime Lannister, Arya Stark's face-changing murder list, or Dany's last dragon (or perhaps other dragons?) it's about time for her evil ass to bite the dust.

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The 'Game of Thrones' cast is as pumped as we are for tonight's episode. Here's how they're prepping!

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If we know anything about "Game of Thrones," a lot of sh*t goes down the episode before the finale. Tonigh is Season 8, episode 5, and after Euron's scared look up at the sky in the promo for tonight's episode, fans have a lot of dragon and murder related theories.

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While some of the cast is celebrating mother's day, others are mocking us with the fact that they've read the entire season's scripts (we see you, Cersei). Only a few more hours until we find out the truth! Happy Mother's Day to the mother of dragons and the mother of death (Cersei).

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1. Daenerys Targaryen is celebrating mother's day and being blonde.

2. Cesei Lannister knows wtf is going to happen and she's taunting us with this information.

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3. Sansa Stark is teaching people how to be sexy and change tires.

4. Euron Greyjoy is getting pumped for (hopefully) Cersei's murder.

5. Maisie Williams launched a new project, an app for creatives.

6. Tormund just hit three million followers.

7. Brienne of Tarth supports a love affair between her and Tormund.

Who is going to kill Cersei, though? Will there be other dragons? Give the people what they want!

20 hilarious reactions from people who hated last night's 'Game of Thrones.' Dany needs a Xanny.

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Obligatory "Spoilers Alert" although honestly if you haven't watched it, get your life in order.

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People weren't very impressed with last night's episode of "Game of Thrones." Considering it was the second to last episode of the entire series, there was a lot of pressure.

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While there were theories about possible teen dragons rolling into King's Landing, Arya or Jaime murdering Cersei, and the dead dragon not actually being dead, what we got instead was an hour of Daenerys having a full blown murdering spree/wildly unhinged mental breakdown. While I understand wanting revenge after watching your best friend get beheaded, there's a reason why we can't let emotions into leadership (we see you, Trump's Twitter). Dany flame-murdered hundreds of innocent people in King's Landing AFTER she hears the bells of surrender, which seems out of character after almost a decade of her claiming she will be a fair ruler of the seven kingdoms. I guess we all have bad days? Good thing nobody gives "let me speak to your manager" women dragons at Target.

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It seems like a bit of a stretch to call such an epic episode "bad," but it was disappointing to see Dany lose it and nobody murder Cersei except for a ceiling of concrete rubble. That being said, all the signs have been in place for awhile for Dany to burn cities to the ground. Never underestimate the power of a scorned women who is in love with her nephew, lost two of her dragon children and her best friend. The internet, however, was a harsh critic.

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Ben Shapiro is getting dragged back to the womb for making the same Mother’s Day joke six years in a row.

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If you are a mom reading this, then Happy Belated Mother's Day! I hope that your children fed you breakfast in bed, showered you with presents, or at least took the time to write a note expressing how much you mean to them.

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No matter how you celebrated the day, it's safe to assume that you spent it better than the conservative talking head and (angry) proud virgin Ben Shapiro. Rather than use his social media platform to post a heartfelt dedication to his mother, as many others do, Shapiro spent it posting the same joke he's made six years in a row.

This year, people both noticed and dragged his rerun, particularly since the joke is clearly written to own the libs.

People were quick to pull up receipts of all the past times Shapiro has rested on that joke.

There were so many satisfying angles from which to make fun of Shapiro's repeated attempt at humor.

One of the common refrains was noting how few conservatives are good at online humor.

While Shapiro's joke has been a mainstay for Mother's Day, he's also employed the same comedy for Father's Day. He is nothing if not a man who knows how to harness a writing device.

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