"Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on."
-Annie Jacobsen
In case you haven't heard, over 500,000 people have signed up for a Facebook event titled "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All Of Us." The best part of the Area 51 madness, is, of course, all of the hilarious alien memes. The truth is out there.
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Photographers behaving like creeps is nothing new — but models' ability to call them out on social media is.
A-list fashion photographer Marcus Hyde has been called out by online watchdogs, like the fashion industry watchdog Instagram account Diet Prada, for allegedly trying to bribe an unknown model for nudes in exchange for a photo shoot with him. The story's gotten so much attention, his famous former collaborator Ariana Grande has commented. Still no word from the Kardashians he's worked with, though.
It all started this weekend when a model known as Sunnaya posted on Instagram asking if any photographers would like to shoot with her. Hyde then allegedly DMed Sunnaya and asked her to send him nude photos so he could see if she was "worth it," in exchange for a free photo session. She wrote back that she was only "comfortable shooting lingerie and partial nudity." Hyde allegedly responded, "It's 2k then."
Sunnaya responded, "Yeah you wack." Hyde allegedly wrote back, "Find someone else. I'll keep shooting celebs." Sunnaya posted the alleged screenshots in her Instagram story, where the gained steam until the story was picked up by Diet Prada, then larger outlets like E! and Page Six.
In an insane gesture of supporting an alleged perpetrator over a victim, Instagram has removed Sunnaya's posts calling out Hyde. She says they've accused her of "bullying or harassment" for calling out the potential abuser. So she's taken to Twitter to catalog all of the other messages she's gotten from models claiming Hyde showed similar behavior with them.
Screenshots of Sunnaya and Hyde's alleged conversation can be seen below:
Diet Prada called out two of Hyde's highest-profile pals, Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande, by name and tagged them.
"Gross @marcushyde," the account wrote. "@kimkardashian @arianagrande , come get your boy and teach him some decency."
The caption continues:
Last night, Los Angeles model and interior design student @sunnnaya replied to the celebrity photographer’s Instagram story seeking models for a shoot. What transpired in their DM was nothing short of the typical predatory douchebaggery you’d expect via shady Instagram “castings” by slimy dudes.
Diet Prada and Page Six also report that when confronted with the screenshots, Hyde responded to Sunnaya, “Suck a fat big d*ck."
"That’s sure to get you points with the ladies, Marcus," Diet Prada wrote.
The model and musician Karen Elson was one of the first celebs to respond to Diet Prada's post.
"This is so sad and why models need to have better protections as this happens every day to young women on social media who are trying to make it as a model," she wrote.
Musician SZA commented too, leaving a succinct "Ewwwwwewwww" under the post.
TV and internet personality Michelle Visage wrote, "This is not only gross but it's bordering on extortion."
Ariana Grande has also posted a response on her Instagram story that condemns Hyde's actions but doesn't call him out by name:
dear models / artists in LA / anywhere,
i have just read some shocking and really heartbreaking stories.i hate that this is a conversation.but.
please do not shoot wit hphotographers who make you uncomfortable or make you feel like you need to take your clothing off if you don't want to. if you want to, sick. but if you don't, please don't.
The message goes on to say there are "so many respectful, nice, talented photographers out there" and advises people to "look out for one another," and tell friends which photographers who don't act like pervs. She also tags a few photogs with whom she's had good experiences, like Alfredo Flores.
"Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You haven't lived until you've laughed at these utterly random memes. Get your day started off on the right foot by cracking up at this hilarious list of memes.
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This isn't it, "Macy's." Which eating disorder rehabilitation center have you been stealing your designs from? When Alie Ward, host of "Did I Mention Intervention?" on the CW noticed a plate that looked like it popped out of one of those 1950's ads for women recommending methamphetamine to reduce their waists for their husbands, she took it to Twitter.
Nobody on this planet wants to eat off of a plate that body shames them into clothing-related portion control. Hey kids, gather around the family dinner table and also make sure your pizza slice only fits in this tiny circle that says "skinny jeans" or you'll lose all your friends and never succeed! It'll be fun, dig in!
Seriously, who designed this? It's either a product of Kim Kardashian's skinny tea spon-con or it's a very out of touch man who thinks women will buy anything that tells them they could get a thigh gap.
Naturally, many people were on Alie's side:
Someone even fixed them:
Of course, there were haters:
I find it interesting that all the people telling her to get a sense of humor also didn't understand that her Tweet was hyperbolic and probably in jest. Yes, these plates promote disordered eating but saying they should be "banned in all 50 states" is pretty hilarious. The internet is a scary place...
"Macy's" eventually responded:
Maybe this will inspire plate designers to give the people what they really want out of plates: better jokes.
Some people were offended by the mere fact that others could be offended and doubled down on wanting the plates:
Alie further explained herself:
Regardless of how you feel about these plates, I think we can all agree that that circle isn't big enough for food..
Better luck next time, "Macy's!"
Identical twins exist because a fertilized egg splits in two, and also to provide us with entertaining tales of mistaken identities. A recent Reddit thread vaguely asked for stories involving mixup with twins' partners, which while the premise of many a porn, also provided a platform for all sorts of funny twin stories.
These hijinks all would have been adapted into movies in the 90s, but now, just reading will do.
Was going down an escalator at a casino. Look across and see my brother! Get the excites and yell HEY BRO! Start waving for his attention!
Was waving to myself in a mirror.
I went to a funeral of a friend's father, I had no idea that the deceased had an identical twin. It felt really strange to see the guy in the coffin sat at the front row of the Church.
My husband has an identical twin. When my husband and I got engagement photos done, Facebook automatically tagged my husband's brother in a bunch of our photos, and I posted them without realizing.
I'm not a twin, but dated one of two twin brothers in high school. The other twin also had a girlfriend at the school. One day, someone in my class pulls me aside to nervously tell me he thinks my boyfriend is cheating on me...he was fairly new at the school and didn't know yet there were twins. It gave us all a good laugh when the story got around and the guy was pretty relieved to hear there was no cheating going on.
Dad’s friend is a twin. Lives in Chicago. His twin brother lives in Boston. On the same day, both twins fell off a ladder and broke the same leg.
My dad is an identical twin and he and his brother went to the same university, both majored in Engineering. Apparently they used to take tests for each other, depending on who was most comfortable with the material.
I fancied a twin in high school and couldn't realise why in one class she spoke to me yet in another didn't know what the f*ck i was on about. It took me 4 months and just bumping into them both on the walk home and I literally went "there's 2 of you!"
In elementary school there was this girl who I had been irritating a lot. One time she went to my twin brother and slapped him hard in the face (or so I'm told) just to realize it was the wrong twin. She got so ashamed she never tries to slap me. Win-win.
Little league baseball, second grade. I was on first and my identical twin brother was on second. The batter hit a pop fly and it was caught, but my dumb ass didn’t know to run back to first base so I was standing on second and so was my brother. Everyone was screaming at me to run back to first but I didn’t understand what they were saying so my twin just decided to screw it and run back to first himself. We looked completely alike back then and somehow nobody realized a different kid ran back to first so I guess it worked out in the end :)
My cousin married a twin. He came up behind the one who he thought was his wife, did a two handed butt-cheek smack/grab only to make eye contact with his wife while holding her sisters butt.
My grandpa was so nervous and acting weird when asking my grandma to marry him, she thought it was his twin brother playing a joke on him and said no. He drove her to his house to find his twin and prove he was himself and then she said yes.
My mom has a twin brother. One of her pet peeves is when people ask her "oh, are you identical?" Her go to response is always "yeah, except he has a penis." Works every time.
People don't like to stare down the barrel of their own prejudice, especially when it's towards someone as close as a family member. Homophobia is sadly still so embedded culturally that it tears apart countless families and causes people to disown their own blood.
One of the most toxic forms of homophobia, aside from fully pushing an LGBTQIA member out of the family, is forcing them to stay silent about the way they've been treated. In many families that make amends after a falling out, there is an oppressive understanding that the LGBTQIA loved one is supposed to sweep past homophobia under the rug and undermine the complexities of their identity in order to make other people more comfortable.
It wasn't until his father passed away that OP's mother had a change of heart and reached back out to mend the relationship. Since OP's nephew was 5-years-old during the falling out, that makes him 16 now, and reasonably curious about why his uncle was distant.
"AITA for being honest with my nephew about where I was for most of his life? Okay, let me just get right into this. I [27M] was kicked out at 16 because my older sister [37F] outed me to my parents as gay. They completely cut off all contact with me and I didn't see any of my family up until last year, when my father passed away and Mum had a change of heart and we started building a relationship again. When I was kicked out, my nephew was 5 years old. For the less maths savvy, that makes him 16 now."
At first, OP tried to avoid it, but he ended up sharing the truth after realizing the nephew had no clue what went down.
"A couple of weeks ago, there was a family party in which he and I ended up spending most of the evening together, just chatting and stuff. He asked me why I wasn't around for so long and what happened between me and the fam to make them push me out like that. I asked him what his mum had told him and he just shrugged and said she won't talk about it. I told him he's maybe better having this conversation with her but he kept pressing until I eventually confessed I was cut off for being gay. He made a face and asked how my parents even found out. I told him I was outed by my sister, but that he must understand that this was a long time ago and that I don't think she'd do something like that now and that it was just a silly mistake on her part. He got a bit quiet and changed the subject."
OP stuck to his guns and pointed out that he was simply telling the truth because his nephew wanted to know.
"I got a phone call from my sister the next day furious that I'd told him and accusing me of trying to poison her not only against her but against the rest of the family too by "pretending they're bad people" and "making up false homophobia accusations". I explained to her that I didn't tell him anything but the truth because he asked and I think he's old enough to deserve honesty. She just kept yelling at me for dragging up the past and being a bad influence and has effectively banned me from hanging out with my nephew. I'm crushed because obviously I love the kid. Did I do the wrong thing? Should I have lied or refused to talk about it or lied to him or something?"
Now that his sister has cut him off from his nephew, OP is wondering if he should have handled the situation differently.
"NTA. You told the truth and you even downplayed her part by saying it was a "silly mistake". I wonder if your nephew is perhaps LGBTQ+ himself and is now upset with his mom because he is afraid the same will happen to him. Or likely he's just a good kid that knows that love=love, and is not afraid to stand up for what is right. Either way, good on him."
"The other important thing here OP is that you have now established yourself as someone honest and trustworthy for your nephew when he turns 18. He's 16, "banning" him from seeing you is not a rational or enforceable consequence."
"NTA: You didn’t do absolutely anything wrong. Don’t feel bad that your sister both outed you out and then got mad at you because she didn’t want to look homophobic in the eyes of her son, which she might still be. You did the right thing. I’m familiar with these family secrets, and in the long run it ends up hurting family members."
"She is definitely still a homophobe. She denied the existence of obvious homophobia (the family kicked him out and she still said he was making it up!) and now she's banning her kid from seeing his gay uncle specifically because the uncle is gay (if the uncle were straight, he never would have had this story to tell).
Sucks for the kid but he's probably smart enough to figure out what's up"
"NTA. Your nephew wanted answers, and you told him to ask his mom, but he wanted to hear your side, which you were honest about. Your sister is the AH for outing you and then acting like the victim when called out on it by her son, your parents are the AHs for kicking you out and their homophobia. Your nephew seems cool though, props to him."
"Your sister says you’re “pretending they’re bad people”, but she hasn’t stopped to consider that they are, and they’re finally being called out on it. You were EXTREMELY kind (more so than I would have been) by trying to save your sister by saying she wouldn’t do that anymore and trying to not diminish your nephew’s opinion of his mother."
"TBH though I have no sympathy for her or anyone who intentionally outs someone who does not want to be."
"NTA. Your sister was 26 when she outed you. She was an adult and she behaved abominably, especially if she suspected your father would take it that badly. Now she's blaming you for stating the truth which shows her in such a bad light."
"Few people actually acknowledge how bad they are. Most people who pull this kind of shit weasel out of it. "It wasn't my fault," or "It wasn't that bad," etc. Your sister probably thinks she's a good/nice person. Well, she isn't."
"Your nephew will soon be an adult. He can decide who to keep in touch with no matter what his mum thinks."
It feels crystal clear that the OP handled the situation with far more grace than most people would have, and his sister's behavior proves she doesn't deserve such consideration. Hopefully, the nephew is able to cultivate a relationship with OP regardless of his homophobic mom.
Money can buy almost anything in this capitalist society, but it can't shield you from controversy. Which is why the Kardashian-Jenner klan are constantly in hot water, and not just their private hot tubs.
"Partners in crime 4 evaaa," she wrote in the caption.
Turns out, this caption may have been more literal than she intended. Commenters were quick to point out that parking in a handicapped spot if you're not disabled is both illegal and unethical.
In defense of the couple, we don't know for sure what's going on in this photo. It could be a private garage. Or they could've made a quick stop for a selfie before moving the car to a non-handicapped spot. Still not cool, but I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, because journalism!
This lone commenter pointed out we should get more information before we jump straight to outrage:
BUT WHY WOULD WE DO THAT WHEN WE CAN YELL AT KYLIE JENNER FOR DOING A BAD THING?
It's weirdly..... gratifying.
Unfortunately this isn't Kylie Jenner's first brush with ableism. Back in 2015, she was called out for posing for "sexy" fashion photos in a wheelchair.
You'd think she'd be more on her guard about this issue, especially after her sister Kendall Jenner was caught parking in a handicapped spot not so long ago. But why be on your guard when you can do whatever the heck you want, and just blame it on the valet? Perks of being a "self-made" billionaire.
There are a lot of problems in the way we raise boys today, especially when it comes to letting boys express their emotions in a healthy way without shame attached. Many parents expect their sons to be emotionally tougher than their daughters, when in reality, we're all just people. Sometimes we're tough, sometimes we want to collapse into a puddle.
When anyone's feelings are ignored or pent up, they can bubble up and brew into something disastrous for both men and women alike. While men have a lot of work to do when it comes to understanding and respecting women, there are plenty of harmful stereotypes and low expectations that women project onto men as well.
When a recent Reddit user asked, "Men of Reddit, what’s a myth about men that’s 100% untrue and it infuriates you whenever you hear it?" men everywhere were ready to share the most hurtful myths they've heard floating around. Gentlemen, you have the floor!
If we take long in the bathroom, we are not always jacking off, sometimes we're just enjoying a long shower or browsing memes.
Ya know what, I did give a shit about my wedding day. I cannot believe the amount of people (mostly ladies) who just straight up assumed, "all you have to remember is where to be and to say I do right? haw haw haw". Fuckin annoying. I had ideas of how I wanted it to look and how I wanted it to go as well. But my goodness, not a single person thought I gave a shit even though I constantly was trying to give my take on stuff. It was always met with, "oh you dont need to worry about that" or "oh the ladies will figure that out" like, this is infuriating.
That men don't have self image issues. You only get to hear about body positivity when it's about womens bodies.
How Men Are on Commercials.
How we can't do laundry, cook, raise kids, or anything without our wives coming to show us how.
Look, assholes, I'm single and I do all my own cleaning, laundry, dishes, etc. I have never stared at a mop like it was a plasma death ray, nor have I ever had to rush out to buy dinner because I burned mine (well, a few times when drunk, but that's not the same thing).
I also am capable of taking care of a baby without having to call a woman to give me directions. (I don't have kids, but I have younger cousins and what not. I can change a diaper and bottle feed just fine).
That we are emotionless. Sometimes it is not the right situation to show how you are feeling. Just because I am not showing it doesn't mean I am not feeling it.
I have personally never talked to a guy friend about how their girlfriends are in bed, or really anything about their sex lives.
We don't cook or do housework. Fuck that i come home from a hard day of work and cook my family dinner every night.
I wouldn’t call it a myth, but when a guy is helpful around the house and just courteous in general, sometimes a woman will say, “your wife/girlfriend has trained you well!” No, we managed to become decent human beings without a woman’s help, fuck you very much.
We think about sex every 7 seconds.
That we must be swift as the coursing river, have the force of a great typhoon, possess the strength of a raging fire, and be as mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
That they don't need compliments. I hate it when I do it to my male friends and some other acquaintance will overhear and tease me for it. But when I do it to a female friend, nobody gives shit. I believe that guys deserve to be complimented sincerely once in a while, like everybody else.
Most men have zero issue asking for directions. I don't like being lost, it's god damn annoying.
We actually love the attention just as much as women do. And cuddling too.
I fucking LOVE Bath and Body Works.
I love mojitos, margs, and other fruity cocktails.
I will always buy pads/tampons when asked.
I cry sometimes.
I can point out/notice a good-looking guy (as a straight guy). This is the one that gets me the most - sometimes I feel like I can't compliment a new haircut or whatever. I hate the "no homo" thing - a compliment isn't gay unless you make it gay!!!
Despite spending her whole life and career serving him, people assume that Ivanka Trump is not a lot like her father Donald, just because her clothes are tailored. But the grifter-brander White Lady Outreach Coordinator of the Trump White House is her father's daughter, especially when it comes to spelling.
Ivanka took to Twitter to congratulate fellow blonde bigot Boris Johnson on becoming the non-Queen leader of the United Kingdom, or so we think. She wrote "United Kingston."
She deleted the tweet and tried again with "United Kingdom," but the internet doesn't forget.
They're also all making the same joke.
The cheeky Brits are joking that Ivanka was indeed referring to Kingston upon Thames, and area in southwest London and its own electoral district.
It's an exciting day for the family, as Boris Johnson has been widely called "the British Trump" for his buffoonishness and bigotry.
There's also uncertainty about how many children he has.
BoJo and DJT are birds of a feather, and not just because their respective hairpieces look like roadkill.
The special relationship has never seemed so special.
If Kevin McCallister taught us anything, it's that being Home Alone is an activity only fitting for the brave and ready. All it takes to transform restful alone time into the makings of a horror movie plot is a disconcerting sound or a suspicious shadow through the window, and sadly, those are not as rare as we'd hope they are.
Still, there is something perversely comforting about reading other people's scary stories as a form of vicarious preparation. Maybe, just maybe, if we all watch enough true crime and read enough anecdotes we can innoculate ourselves against danger (or in the very least - get better about spotting red flags).
"This happened to my mom: She grew up in Wichita, Kansas while the BTK serial killer was active. The house of one of his first victims was down her block. But one day she was home with her brother, she was upstairs in her room and he was downstairs. Apparently he heard a noise in the backyard moments before the power cut out (this was one of the key things that BTK did before entering the home). She just knew the power went out then heard her brother scream and yelled for her to run away. She hopped out her window and sprinted barefoot to a Pizza Hut a couple blocks away. She called the police who went to the house but didn’t find anything and everything turned out fine."
"I got a phone call asking how my tv was holding up, I thought it was just the company we bought it from checking up on it and doing their normal customer support stuff until I was told exactly what channel I was watching. I asked who it was on the phone and they said “don’t worry I can see you but you can’t see me.” I was 9 at the time and my parents were out of town for work so my older sister (17 at the time) got us all to hide in my parents closet with the guns and we called the police. When they arrived they called us to let us know it was them knocking on the door. They found footprints but no person. We installed security cameras not soon after and never had a problem again but it still creeps me out to this day."
"Home alone when I was 10 or 12 somewhere in between there. My parents house is located in the suburbs surrounded by woods and the golf course. It was a stormy night and my parents went out for dinner. I was watching tv in the living room with my dog on my lap when all of the sudden she jumps up and sprints to the front door barking ( she never barks, my dad trained her since she had a very loud annoying bark ). I walk over and turn on the outside light to see nobody."
"As soon as i did this she sprinted to the back living room by the pool with sliding glass doors and starts barking over there like someone was inside the screened pool area. I run over and turn the pool lights on, empty. I started to get kinda freaked out, she then ran to the garage door barking like she was going to rip someones face off. I grab a knife from the kitchen and open the garage door to hear the rain and see the main garage door wide open."
"I immediately shut the garage door and slammed the inside door behind me, grabbed my dog and ran into my room locking the door and going into the closet. I waited in there what felt like 3 hrs for my parents to get home. I told them everything and my dad went outside to find what looked like new muddy footprints around the garage and pool area. Nothing else ever came about from it but man I got the chills typing that out. Freaky experience"
"A man was standing outside on my lawn about six years ago in the middle of the day. Freaked me the feck out. Found out he lives next to my house. Same guy, same place. He knocks on my door and asks me if I've seen his cat. I hadn't and asked what it looked like for future reference. He then looks me in the eyes, dead serious, and says, "I don't know" and then stares at me in silence for 30 seconds."
"Last story. After a snowstorm, I went outside and saw bare, human footprints leading from my yard to his house up a hill. This guy is freaky."
"EDIT: I asked around and it turns out this guy has some sort of mental illness, which does explain his behavior. Thanks to those of you who did reply and suggest different actions and reasons for his behavior, as it is what caused me to ask neighbors questions about this. As far as anyone knows, his intentions are not malicious at all, and he is a kind-hearted man."
"My dog was very restless. But I figured she just wanted to go outside. As we get closer to the door she begins to growl and her hackles raised. Idiot me still opened the door. Hello masked stranger. I lucked out the guy took of running."
"I got home late one night. It was hot so the first thing I did was open the back door to let the breeze through. In my dark backyard I saw the glow of a cigarette."
"Before I could react, I saw the cigarette thrown to the floor and heard someone clamber over my back fence and run away down the alley."
"When I was about 7, I was left home alone while my mom went on an errand. (It was a different time then) She told me to not answer the phone or the door. About an hour goes by and the phone rings. Then it stops, then it rings, then again about four times. I was determined not to answer it. Then the doorbell rings. Then knocking, then ringing and knocking. I was panicking."
"So I crawl on the floor to stealthily look out the side windows to see who it is. It’s my neighbor. I opened the door and he said I needed to come with him to play at his house. I was like, but I have to stay here. He told me my mom said I needed to go with him. So I went and watched tv at his house for a few hours until my dad came and got me. Turns out my mom got into a terrible car wreck when she was out. She got 40 staples in the back of her head and messed up her knee."
"In the mid ‘90s I was home alone, laying on the couch with one leg propped up on the top. Watching tv. All of a sudden I could feel my thigh shaking vigorously. Then the windows were rattling very loud. I freaked out thinking something from the near by military base was crashing or something. I went out side, I could see leaves falling I could still feel my body shaking and was still panicking and then it just stopped. It was an earthquake. 4.7, but still super creepy."
"My neighbors were screaming on each other, and after 15 minutes of screaming and talking i heard a shot. then another shot. in that day, man killed his wife and himself. sry for my English."
"We all know the "cats at 3 am" meme where your cat starts running around the house and making a huge ruckus in the middle of the night for no reason whatsoever. Yeah. All cats do that. No big deal."
"Well, one night my cat was doing that and since it was pretty common I just ignored it. Cats do it and its normal. I was downstairs and not asleep yet, and my cat was upstairs. It kept going for a little while but I paid no attention to it until I heard glass shatter. I went upstairs to check on my cat and see what broke."
"My cat was sound asleep. Nothing was broken. It literally wasn't 30 seconds after I heard something break that I stood up and went upstairs, and my cat was sleeping like a baby. When I went to go pick her up she did that stretch-and-yawn thing that cats do after waking up from a long nap, and she had obviously been asleep for quite some time. I never found any broken glass. Weird shit."
"I was living with my parents, but they were out of town for a couple of nights. I was sitting at my computer with my headphones on playing video games at maybe 1-2 in the morning. Suddenly I feel my phone vibrating. I look down and see that someone new has added me on Snapchat and out of curiosity I accept."
"I continue playing my game, and when it's done I look at my phone again to see if the person has messaged me, which they had. So I open up the Snapchat and to my extreme horror I see that it's a photo of me sitting at my computer, playing videogames. Taken from a good bit behind me with zoom. The photo had been taken maybe just a few minutes before while I was still in the game. There was no caption, no text, no nothing. I immediately go into panic mode and think I'm going to be murdered any second."
"Now, all the lights were off in the house, so I couldn't see outside of my room because it was pitch black, but the light switch for the hallway is just outside of my room. I sneak out and flick it on but don't see anyone. I slowly walk towards the kitchen to turn those lights on as well, and to grab a knife. As soon as I turn on the lights I hear someone literally stomping up the stairs from the first floor. Very slowly, but very loud.And the lights on the first floor were all off, so it was pitch black down there as well. At that point I just thought "fuck it" and ran outside."
"Outside I see two of my mates, filming me and laughing their asses off. Turns out that when they had been at my place earlier during the day they had devised a plan to prank the shit out of me, and stolen the extra key we kept at home. So two of the guys had gone in through the door on the bottom floor, and the other two were waiting outside to film my reaction when/if I ran out. Pretty anticlimactic ending to the story. But still, it scared the everloving shit out of me."
"This one kid I went to school with would wait until my single mother went to work, and he would call my house over and over again and also come over and knock on the front door and then go knock on the backdoor when I didn’t answer. He also followed me to and from school until his parents took his car away, so he just walked behind me instead. I am honestly still traumatized from these experiences."
"Edit: He would also rev his engine at me when he still drove by daily. I think he was just a predator because he also grabbed my ass in the 5th grade in my own home with my parents home, and he also once offered me a ride home, and after I got in he started speeding and wouldn’t let me out, so I jumped out at a stop sign. One time he grabbed my hand and put it on his erect boner through his pants. I was maybe in the 7th grade at this time. He also asked me why over and over again if I said no to him and would whisper insult at me in class until I asked the school counselor for help, but I didn’t really tell them everything because I was scared to get in trouble for some reason."
"I grew up in a small town where I was seen as an outcast and I thought I though that it was normal at the time and that I deserved it for some reason. I never told the police or anyone about all of it, but I really wish I had. He was a few years older than me but in the same classes in school because he was held back. My parents were too busy dealing with their divorce at the time to notice, and I was too ashamed to tell them. He was also manipulative as hell, so I was afraid he would lie and say it never happened for something. Last fall I started a job and discovered I work with his wife who he married just after she got pregnant. Life is fucking shitty and weird."
"I was staying at my parents’ place, sleeping in their bed while they were away, when suddenly I wake up paralyzed while I first heard then saw someone sneaking around (the bedroom door was open). The person—wearing dark clothes, face obscured—eventually came into the room, sat on the bed, and leaned closer, closer, closer."
"When I was finally able to break the sleep paralysis the first thing I did was make sure the front door was locked. It was not."
"My family went out grocery shopping once when I was a teenager, so I thought it'd be the perfect time to get some dishes cleaned in peace. After a few minutes, I heard what sounded like somebody trying to talk to me, but I didn't think much of it. I lived in the city so my neighbors were close by and always being loud as shit, so I figured it was them. But then I hear what sounds like somebody's death rattle right by my ear. I don't know how to describe the sound all that well, but it was really disgusting and strangled, like somebody was choking to death."
"I freak out, immediately turn around, and there's nothing in the kitchen with me. Somehow that wasn't the strangest part because right after, my cats all rush into the basement. They definitely looked scared and it wasn't often they ran from anything unless people were over. That leaves me and my dog to patrol the house, so I grabbed a knife and looked the place over top to bottom. Even checked the creepy ass attic attached to my mom's bedroom. There wasn't anybody else there. Not even a sign of somebody messing around inside or outside."
"So I did the most reasonable thing and scurried into the basement with my pets and cried because I was scared. :')"
"I lived in a one-bedroom apartment in a modern building on the 5th floor. The layout is this: You come in, and there is a very small foyer/hallway area. To the left is the kitchen, to the right a bathroom and bedroom, straight ahead is the living room area."
"I came home from work one night after picking up some Burger King. Got the mail downstairs, went to my apartment, opened my door, and walked to the living room area while sort of looking at the mail in my right hand. Plopped down on the couch, turned on the television, spread out the Burger King and started chowing while watching some show."
"When if finished dinner I watched TV a bit more and then went to throw out the wrappers and bag in the kitchen trash. When I stood up to go to the kitchen, there were two feet sticking out of my kitchen doorway into the hall/foyer. As if the rest of the person it was attached to was laying on its back on my kitchen floor. Human legs."
"I froze. I can’t explain the feeling of that kind of terror, but I absolutely froze. I didn’t move at all and only when I realized I wasn’t breathing did I have to force myself to do it. I stood there for a couple of minutes, frozen, staring at those feet. Black shoes, black socks, and a little ankle showing beneath green pants. There was a dead body in my kitchen, and it’s legs were sticking out a little bit into my hall."
"Who knows how long it took me to inch toward the kitchen. At some point I yelled, “Hey!” And the legs did not move. Closer and closer, inch by inch. When I got close enough I leaned over to look in my kitchen. It was maintenance worker from the apartment complex. I yelled “Hey!” again, but then went to the kitchen to check him. He was alive. I called the front desk and they called 911."
"The EMTs got there and took him. I was told later that he had diabetes and had “diabetic shock” and was borderline comatose when they took him to the hospital. (I don’t know anything, really, about diabetes, so there’s probably a different medical term for it). I was also told he was going to be fine. He apparently came back to work but I never saw him again."
"Home alone at about 12 years old. Watching a movie on my laptop when suddenly the back door slammed shut. I had locked it so I knew something wasn't right. I got up with a metal baseball bat. Then the front door, which I had locked, slammed shut as well. Locked the back door and went to check out the front door. Locked the front door and heard a knocking at the back door. I ran into my room, called the police and hid until they arrived. The knocking was continuous for about 3 minutes, non stop, until I heard sirens. They had a look at our surveillance video. It showed the doors opening on their own and no one at the back door when I heard knocking.
Now there's two deadbolts on both doors."
Fat-shaming is never ok, and it's definitely not ok to fat-shame the clients at the gym you work at. Just, nope. Nah. No way José. Get out of town, clown. Etc.
A guy who is "really into body building" (hashtag same) recently took to Reddit to share an ethical "dilemma" he experienced at the gym where he has been going 3-4 times a week for the past 16 years. I relate to this because I have gone to the gym 3-4 times in the past 16 years.
For context, I am really into body building and have been going to the gym 3-4 times a week since I was 13 (now 29).
There is a personal trainer, Ashley, at my current gym thats also a single mother of two. I mention this as it’s the reason I think I’m probably an asshole since she clearly needs the job to support her kids.
Anyway, I’m not really friends with her, but she’s always really nice to me and has flirted with me a lot previously. We talk occasionally. Yesterday she asked if I wanted to add her on social media and I figured why not, so I said yes.
They recently "added" each other on social media, because that's how flirting works in the 21st century. Everyone knows it's the first step towards sliding into the DM's, which is practically sex. But things suddenly took a turn for the worse, as so often happens when you discover someone's true colors via their social media accounts.
Later in my workout I started looking through her posts out of boredom when I saw a picture of a morbidly obese person along with a caption making fun of them trying to run. The picture was clearly taken at the gym.
This really angered me because they’re trying to improve their health, and the last thing they need is some attractive young girl talking shit about them, even if it’s not to their face. I scrolled through a few more posts and sure enough this is a regular thing. She discreetly takes pictures of fat people to make fun of when they’re working out.
Really really pissed me off to see these people being made fun of for trying to fix their life. Without thinking I just went straight to the owners office (we know each other well) to show him. Ashley was fried immediately.
This situation seems pretty ethically straightforward to me. What this woman did is unforgivable, and makes her a terrible fit for a job as a personal trainer. Your job is to encourage and inspire, not shame and degrade. Plus, posting photos of someone without their consent with the aim of mocking them is straight-up bullying and not OK, regardless of your job.
But BBG's girlfriend apparently disagrees.
When I told my GF she said I’d let my anger get the best of me because now her kids will suffer if she can’t find another good job. So now I feel kinda shit about doing that, AITA?
Now BBG feels "kinda shit" about getting that a**hole fired for being an a**hole. Which is a huge bummer. Because there are few things sadder than a sad body builder. Just picture The Rock crying. I mean, wow, day ruined.
Luckily BBG went to Reddit's "Am I The A**hole?" community, where we all go when seeking the answers to life's most perplexing moral quandaries, to ask: "Am I the a**hole?"
Most commenters echo this sentiment, stated perfectly by Katification:
NTA - she shouldn't be employed there. Having kids shouldn't excuse her behavior, and it's not your problem that she has kids.
And stacyqw123 writes:
NTA. This is a business. The owners could be damaged by her behavior since it reflects in their business.
Sometimes internet commenters are 100% right and this is one of those times.
In other news, BBG may need to get a new GF who doesn't make him feel like "kinda sh*t" for being a good person. Who knows, maybe he'll be single soon and we'll have a meet-cute at the gym I frequent once every 3-4 years?! Chances are high.
On Monday a group of neighbors in Nashville, Tennessee used their bodies as a shield against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officers attempting to arrest a father and son.
The episode went down on Monday morning when the father and son got in their van and were promptly blocked by an ICE vehicle. The ICE officers attempted to coerce the father and son into exiting the van so they could arrest them. When the neighbors witnessed the attempted arrest, dozens of them streamed out to help, quickly forming a human chain between the father and son's van and the ICE vehicle.
"We made sure they had water, they had food, we put gas back in the vehicle when they were getting low just to make sure they were okay," neighbor Felishadae Young told CNN in an interview.
"I was real scared about what was going on," Young continued. "It put a lot of fear in me, because it could be me, it could be my family. It could be anybody. It could be your neighbors, just like it was my neighbor today. It changed a lot about how I feel about this country."
After a few hours of stand-off, the neighbors decided the best course of action would be to form a chain to allow the father and son make it safely into the house without being apprehended by the ICE officers.
The ICE officers had an administrative warrant, which is not a warrant that legally gives them rights to remove someone from their home. In order to legally arrest someone at their house, ICE agents would need a signed warrant from a judge, luckily the neighbors and father and son knew their rights. One of ICE's primary tactics is to trick people into cooperating with an arrest regardless of whether the arrest is legal.
Luckily, after the neighbors successfully guarded the family's entrance into their home, the ICE officers gave up and left.
"I'm so grateful for everyone's support. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thanks to all of you who had our back today," the neighbor said at the door, when her husband and son were safely ushered inside.
How's this for in-flight entertainment?
Today's viral video is a unique medley of MadLibs: a woman on a plane smashed a laptop on her boyfriend's head because he was "looking at other women," and she did so while screaming the N-word.
Julia Scorupco had just boarded her flight from Miami to Los Angeles, likely expecting to pass her time watching Paddington 2, but instead was distracted by this racist Real Housewives-level freakout, "when the woman’s partner looked at another woman."
"You want to try to f—ing look at other women, n—? Nah, f–k you!" the Passenger From Hell screamed. "I wear the f—ing nuts, n—. Watch 'til we f—ing get home."
yes she hulk smashed a dell computer on his head
— Julia Scorupco (@juliascorupco) July 22, 2019
The whole plane screamed once the computer went flying.
"The couple were kicked off the flight, and an EMT came on board to check on those injured - the flight attendant went home (we had to wait for a replacement), while the passenger was fine to fly," Scorupco wrote."This happened right before takeoff, and the flight was delayed 2 hours. A woman on the flight claimed to have seen them fighting already at the gate."
While the woman had no chill with regards to her partner, whom she refers to as Memo, staring at another woman, she seemed pretty calm when it came to her inevitable arrest.
"Ma’am, you’re gonna be charged with assault," the flight attendant told her in the midst of her freakout.
"Fine whatever," she replied.
The video went viral on Twitter, where people have proceeded to debate whether the non-black woman screaming the N-word is or isn't racist.
Fine, whatever.
“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere."
-Ted Bundy
If that quote sent shivers down your spine and you kind of liked it, you might be a true crime addict. If watching shows about unsolved murders and cold cases is your favorite way to relax, you might be a true crime addict. If you know more about serial killers and psychopaths than you do about your own neighbors, you might be a true crime addict. If you totally relate to these memes, you guessed it, you might be a true crime addict.
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"I was dating a guy for a while because he told me he had an incurable disease. I didn't realize it was stupidity."
-Gracie Hart, 'Miss Congeniality'
If you have one or more idiot ex-boyfriends, you will relate hard to these savage memes. Girl, delete his number and get ready to laugh. Life is too short to cry over d-bags.
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Online shopping is the best. One day, seemingly out of the blue, a package just arrives at your doorstep and WHAM now you have a cute new romper you totally forgot you ordered three days earlier at 1 am after learning your ex was engaged. Making clothes magically appear at your doorstep always takes the sting out of life's more painful moments. Except when it doesn't.
Nothing takes the joy out of online shopping like a side of unsolicited diet advice. To make things worse, many of these women had ordered plus-size clothing, sparking rumors that the company was targeting plus-size women with the diet products.
And as this woman points out, it sends a "wildly dangerous message" to customers, many of whom are young women and girls.
While others are having fun roasting Forever 21 on Twitter.
A Forever 21 spokesperson responded with this statement to Jezebel:
From time to time, Forever 21 surprises our customers with free test products from third parties in their e-commerce orders. The freebie items in question were included in all online orders, across all sizes and categories, for a limited time and have since been removed. This was an oversight on our part and we sincerely apologize for any offense this may have caused to our customers, as this was not our intention in any way.
Whatever their intentions, as someone who used to live off Atkins diet bars during a dark time in my early 20's, I can confirm that they are extremely gross and bad. And I do think a company that markets clothing to teen girls should know better than promoting diet products especially ambushing people with them by mail. Have they learned nothing from Jameela Jamil?!?!? Then again, I'm probably just bitter at this store for making me feel like a shriveled old crone the second I walk in the door. More like Forever RUDE.
There's making someone else's pain all about you, and then there's this story.
A married couple posted on Reddit about how much the husband complained about a toothache while the wife gave birth to their first child. The husband posted first to ask if he was an a**hole, and then the wife chimed in with her side of the story — and it all went downhill from there.
Spoiler alert: he is definitely the a**hole.
The husband claims he just mentioned the toothache a few times, while the wife tells things differently. Here's what he said:
My wife went into labor three weeks early so somewhat unexpectedly. Over the prior couple months I had started developing an intermittent toothache. About two or three hours into the 19 hour labor, I probably ate something delicious.
Telling us you ate something delicious while your wife was at the beginning of her suffering is not a great way to garner sympathy, but go on.
After eating something delicious, I can’t quite remember what it was, my tooth started hurting in an ungodly way. I’m talking sharp, eye-watering pain. Her contractions at this point were very far apart, and she was in very little discomfort.
She was "in very little discomfort"? Dig that hole a little deeper, buddy.
Over the next couple of hours the toothache became a competing topic of conversation with the imminent birth of our first child. I didn’t want to leave her side to look for medicine until her parents arrived.
The imminent birth of your first child is not a "topic of conversation," it's a super important and potentially traumatic event that demands 100% attention of everyone involved but okay.
Once they arrived, to my surprise I was able to find an oral numbing medication at the hospital convenience store. That with a couple Excedrin was able to alleviate the pain just as my wife’s contractions started to pick up.
Am I the asshole for discussing my mouth pain during her labor?
By the way, the headline of this Reddit post was "AITA for mentioning that I had a chronic toothache while my wife was in labor?" but even the husband's story makes it clear he went beyond "mentioning" his tooth pain.
As if this wasn't enough, the wife then weighed in with her side of the story — and it's damning. Here are the deets:
My husband had been complaining about a toothache for months and months throughout my first pregnancy. It kept getting worse, and every time he’d complain I’d say he should go to the dentist, but he refused.
Ah, a straight man refusing to get medical help despite the clear signs that he needs to, not to mention urging from everyone around him. That old chestnut.
So as he mentioned, as I was in labor he started to once again complain about this tooth pain. Granted I wasn’t in terrible pain, but for a few hours while I was in the hospital getting ready to push a child out of my body he continued to complain frequently about his toothache.
I did feel bad he was uncomfortable, but I had asked him multiple times to get it checked out, and there were other things at the moment I felt I should be focusing on.
Um, yeah. Like helping bring his own child into the world.
I’d like to also mention it wasn’t just he mentioned once or twice his tooth was hurting, this dominated the conversation for probably a couple hours.
He is a great father and husband, but is he also the asshole?
It's hardly surprising that this man minimized his own part in the labor. But somehow, this couple is still together and has been "debating" whether this was a d*ck move or not for two years.
Thankfully, the people of Reddit were able to put this issue to bed by definitively stating that this dude was an a**hole.
User NStark7474 said the husband was in the wrong "because you refuse to get it treated. At some point you should stop expecting sympathy, because you don’t deserve it."
"Did you think it would go away? Or be less irritating with little sleep and a newborn to care for? You know you should’ve dealt with it," said abrookman1987.
Unabletoattend pointed out that it must've been stressful for the wife to realize while giving birth to a baby that she also happened to be married to one.
"You need to have your st together as you prepare for parenthood," they said. "On top of the horrible timing of his complaint, he was reminding her of his inability to be a f*ing adult who handles their own business. She needed a partner to support her and he was acting like a man baby. How incredibly stressful for her!"
Another user hilariously asked, "Did you have to push the tooth out of your penis?" Seems like the answer is no.
In comments on the post, the couple confirmed that the man later had a root canal. The comeuppance is sweet, although three or four root canals would be a more equitable punishment.
So there you have it. This toothache complainer is unanimously agreed upon as The Worst.
“Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
Start your morning off with a laugh and the rest of the day will be a piece of cake. Unless you're trying to avoid cake right now, then it will be a piece of boneless skinless chicken breast or something.
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Much like the Mueller Report itself, the Mueller Hearings has two act structure. Act one saw an exhausted Mueller sitting before the House Judiciary Committee, the very place where impeachment may or may not begin.
If you didn't watch, read our recap. And if you want a recap even shorter than the recap, these tweets just about sum it up.
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In his opening statement to the House Intelligence Committee, Mueller backed off his answer to Ted Lieu that implied he would've charged Trump if he could. He said he was barred from even making a judgement.
He speaks. Kind of.
Former Special Counsel (and former action hunk in #Resistance comics) Robert Mueller testified before Congress because he was subpoenaed to do so. Act one of the political theater event of the summer was before the House Judiciary Committee, ostensibly to discuss obstruction of justice.
If you didn't watch the hours of screaming, here are the key takeaways.
1. Mueller said that Trump is *Britney Spears voice* NOT. THAT. INNOCENT.
While Trump has tweeted on many occasions "NO COLLUSION AND NO OBSTRUCTION!" as a way to claim innocence and show off that he knows at least two SAT words, Mueller hit Trump with some new fancy vocabulary.
The former FBI director said, in his own special way, that his report did not exonerate the president."The president was not exculpated for the acts that he allegedly committed," he told the House Judiciary Committee.
2. Republicans screamed their faces off like they were auditioning to replace Sean Hannity.
The Republican game plan was clear: challenge Mueller's credibility by being louder than him. Every member of the House minority came out screaming like they were Rep. Shouty McShouterson (R-Hell).
Ranking Member Doug Collins screamed about the dictionary definition of collusion.
Jim Jordan (R-OH), of ignoring a sexual abuse scandal fame, yelled about the Steele dossier, and accidentally debunked the conspiracy theory that it was what started the probe.
Louie Gohmert (R-TX) yelled about Comey, and his head almost burst like a kid in a Gushers commercial.
Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also raged about the Steele dossier, while looking like a bloated Colin Jost.
This is how you treat a veteran and former FBI director?
Republicans do not respect the military and law enforcement.
3. He said that the only reason he didn't charge the president is because you can't charge a president.
An Office of Legal Counsel (OLC opinion) states that sitting presidents can't be indicted. Mueller told Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) that he didn't charge Trump because he couldn't.
When asked by House Judiciary Committee Nadler (D-NY) whether Trump could potentially be indicted for obstruction of justice after leaving office, Mueller responded, "true."
This is true not only of obstruction of justice, but also of the campaign finance violations for which Michael Cohen is now in prison.
4. Mueller found evidence that the President engaged in efforts to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation.
I don't want my friends talking about me behind my back either, but if they can speak to my innocence, I'd let them gossip away.
5. He said that Trump asked staff to do what they did with pictures of his inauguration and falsify records.
He who cried "FAKE NEWS!" tried to deal fake news.
Act two is Mueller testifying before the Intelligence Committee, so stay tuned for a different flavor of Republican rage.
