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Ryan Phillippe got a heartwarming tribute tattoo that's worth having to cover up in future films.

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Ryan Phillippe, actor and early-aughts angsty heartthrob, got a surprisingnew tattoo this week. He now has late rapper Sean Price's face on his arm, which is exciting for Brooklyn hip-hop fans and devastating for the makeup artists who will have to diligently cover it up for his future movies. Photos of the tattoo were shared on Instagram by Phillippe as well as Sean Price's widow Bernadette and friend Dallas Penn.

https://instagram.com/p/8iTnUajnWA/https://instagram.com/p/8bL6JgBLbi/https://instagram.com/p/8iTzvpjnWZ/

Apparently Phillippe was a fan and friend of Price, and got the new ink as a tribute. Not that he's asking for suggestions, but I can think of an iconic image for his other arm too. 

Free tattoo idea.

 


Sports commenter Katie Nolan burns the NFL over player convicted of domestic abuse.

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If you've been following the latest NFL domestic violence debacle, you probably know the saga of Dallas Cowboys player Greg Hardy, who was accused and convicted of dragging his girlfriend through his house, choking her and throwing her on a pile of guns. Hardy appealed the decision and it was overturned when the defendant Nicole Holder didn't show up to court (it's suspected she was "paid off" not to). He was then given a ten game suspension which was inexplicably reduced to four, and Greg will be suiting up this Sunday. Katie Nolan, on the other hand, is the host of Fox Sports 1's Garbage Time, and she was quick to explain who at the NFL is a garbage person:

https://twitter.com/GarbageTime/status/651971250684719104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The short answer is Greg Hardy, but the long answer is the PR team at the NFL and whoever makes decisions about how to handle the depressingly frequent domestic assault cases springing up amongst their athletes. She makes a great case in under 4 minutes for why the NFL needs to listen up and start giving a crap about its female viewership. If she seems emotional, it's probably because she's a woman. HAH PSYCH! It's because she cares:

https://twitter.com/katienolan/status/651938044837294080

Way to go, Katie. You even made a bunch of comedy nerds interested in sports for a second.

Urban Outfitters sends employees condescending email asking them to work weekends for free.

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URBN, the parent company of such retailers as Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People, is facing a tidal wave of Internet criticism over a leaked email sent to employees. Once you read it, you'll understand why. On Tuesday afternoon, salaried workers of URBN's home office in Philadelphia found this chestnut in their email inboxes:

From: URBNcommunity

Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 12:01 PM

Subject: A Call For URBN Volunteers!

A Call for URBN Volunteers!

URBN is seeking weekend volunteers to help out at our fulfillment center in Gap, PA. October will be the busiest month yet for the center, and we need additional helping hands to ensure the timely shipment of orders. As a volunteer, you will work side by side with your GFC colleagues to help pick, pack and ship orders for our wholesale and direct customers.

In addition to servicing the needs of our customers, it’s a great way to experience our fulfillment operations first hand. Get your co-workers together for a team building activity!

The Details:

Who: Home Office URBN salaried employees

Where: URBN’s Fulfilment Center - 766 Brackbill Road, Gap, Pennsylvania 17527

What You’ll Be Doing: Pick, pack and prepare packages for shipment(please wear sneakers and comfortable clothing)

When: October 17, 18, 24, 25, and 31 Lunch will be provided

Two shifts each day: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM or 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

(you can volunteer for one or multiple days)

Transportation: If needed, URBN will provide transportation to and from GFC (details provided after sign up)

HowSign up using this link and we will be in touch with more details. Please do not show up without signing up.

If you read between the cheerily worded lines of this email, it's very easy to see what's going on. URBN is asking their full-time, salaried employees to do hourly work on their weekends off for the rate of $0/hour. And not fun work like planning an office party or goofing off on Facebook, but manual labor like packing and shipping boxes. Of course, there's nothing wrong with doing manual labor, as long as you're being adequately compensated. If you're not, there's something very wrong with it.

Still not as bad as American Apparel.

Of course, the work isn't mandatory. And URBN volunteered to provide free lunch and transportation for any volunteers, which should be a sufficient reward for giving up your hard-earned weekends. What's more, it's a valuable team-building exercise! Imagine what an effective team you and your co-workers would be after not leaving each other's company except to sleep for 14 days.

After the story leaked to the news, URBN released a statement. As Gawker reports, the company's approach was to double down on insulting everyone's intelligence.

After successfully opening our new fulfillment center in June, we asked salaried employees at our home office to volunteer for shifts that would help support the new center through a busy month of October. Unsurprisingly, we received a tremendous response, including many of our senior management. Many hourly employees also offered to pitch in – an offer which we appreciated, but declined in order to ensure full compliance with all applicable labor laws and regulations. The dedication and commitment of URBN employees are second to none, and their response to this request is a testament to their solidarity and continued success.

You see! Everyone loves working for free! Even hourly employees! If URBN had any chance of convincing people with this B.S., they lost it with that claim. If there's one thing hourly freight employees will never do, it's work for free.

Yoko Ono's stunt for John Lennon's b-day was sweet even though you still blame her.

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Strawberry Fields is probably one of the worst places in Central Park if you hate the songImagine, because there's an acoustic guitarist constantly playing it in tribute to the late John Lennon there. Lennon was killed nearby at landmark building The Dakota in 1980, and a place for buskers to give away "free hugs" and sell carnations year-round in the park was born. October 9th of this year would have been John Lennon's 75th birthday. To honor his life, Yoko Ono organized a tribute to him at that sacred Beatles-themed spot.

Almost 2,000 people showed up to make the giant peace sign, which was also an attempt at getting into the book of Guinness World Records. They fell short, because the last record holder for number of people in a peace sign was about 5,000. Still, that's pretty good for New York: everyone here is waaaaaay too busy to give peace a chance. And who cares? It still looked beautiful:

https://instagram.com/p/8gZA41q7-Q/

 

Woman returns grapes she bought because they aren't supposed to come with a friend.

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When most of us buy grapes at the grocery store, all we get is some fresh, delicious fruit. But when Leanne Preedy bought grapes at her local Tesco's in London, she received an unexpected bonus: a lizard friend, or as I like to think of it, a tiny dinosaur living in a land of giant grapes.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156053094975307&set=a.10150909564915307.751975.621260306&type=3

Preedy said on Facebook, "Tesco found it hilarious when I took them back" and offered to give her another container of grapes. But why would you want another container of grapes when the first container had your new BFF inside?

"Let's get matching tattoos!" — Your lizard BFF, probably

 

Police officer relieved of duty after skipping pulling over drivers and just mailing them tickets.

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Houston police officer David Carter is apparently a big believer in "work smarter, not harder." The 13-year veteran of the Houston PD has been temporarily relieved of duty pending an investigation into his ticket-writing activities, which have been allegedly taking place without actually pulling anyone over for speeding first.

The probe was instigated when Houston resident Emanuel Morfin received a ticket in the mail for going 90 mph on a 60 mph section of the North Freeway in Houston. This struck Morfin as odd, since as he points out, "Actually, I was down south in South Texas, so I'm like, well how am I speeding in Houston if I'm out of town? It was kind of ridiculous. I was kind of shocked.” Soon, local news discovered he wasn't the only one receiving mysterious tickets in the mail.

Officer Carter giving KHOU 11 reporter Jeremy Rogowsky the ol' no comment two-step.

Officer Carter stuck to a well-delivered "I have no comment" response to the KHOU 11 news team's repeated questions. But answers he gave to police investigators have made things even worse. Carter alleges he clocked Morfin speeding by matching it in his (Carter's) personal vehicle, not in his patrol car.

Emanuel Morfin, a very confused man and innocent motorist.

Criminal Justice Professor Larry Karson of the University of Houston-Downtown noted, "He's actually making the situation worse, because what he's doing is he's becoming another vehicle flying down at 90 miles an hour and no one knows that he is a police officer. All they know it's another crazy person on the highway."

And that's if Carter's claims are true. Professor Karson elaborated on the further problems if he is indeed just mailing people tickets. "You have an officer who is abusing their discretionary authority. You have no idea who's driving that car. You're sending that ticket to a registered owner, who may or may not be behind the wheel.”

"Sent Via Certified Mail" is almost always the start to a bad story.

The city has dismissed all the tickets mailed to residents by Officer Carter. Randy Zamora, chief of the criminal law division of Houston's legal department, said, “I do not believe the citizens had any knowledge of the citations. Therefore, I did not think it was in the interest of justice to prosecute the cases and asked that all of the citations be dismissed." Carter is still being paid by the police department, although he has no police authority during the investigation.

Target’s only plus-sized male model is making waves for actually resembling customers.

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The fashion world has never been super kind to women, favoring dangerously skinny models over real ladies. Recently, however, it's been more common to see plus-size female models on runways and in magazines and catalogs. But what you might be less aware of is that there has also been a lack of "average" and plus-sized male models, with either super-skinny or ultra-muscular dudes being the norm. Enter Zach Miko, a 6'6" actor and model with a 40-inch waist who also happens to be Target's only plus-sized male model.

Being a model for Target allows Zach the great opportunity to imagine what life would be like if he was part of a set of triplets. 

According to Mic, Miko's work for Target attracted the attention of Bruce Strugell at Chubstr, "a lifestyle website dedicated to helping men of size find, create and share their style with the world." Sturgell told Mic that he was surprised and pleased to see Miko on Target's site, since "You tend to see the tall side of big and tall." Meaning: heftier dudes rarely make it to fashion shows, catalogs, and magazine spreads.

Look at this guy! He looks like a great, regular guy!

In the interview with Mic, Zach's wife Laura noted that Zach's struggles have been similar to those of female models and actresses, but that she wasn't always aware of that: "I didn't realize that he had the same pressures that a lot of women have. He's told he needs to lose weight. He's told he has to be more muscular. He's told he has to be certain things." But, she noted, the Target shoot has helped Zach feel more comfortable in his skin. And, according to Strugell at Chubstr, it's helping other dudes feel more comfortable in their skin, too. 

You can read the entire piece about Zach over at Mic.

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The only thing more adorable than this squirrel’s hurricane adoption story is her Instagram.

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When she was just a baby, Jill the squirrel was knocked out of her nest during Hurricane Isaac. Luckily for her, a kind human rescued her. And luckily for us, that same kind human created an Instagram account that's filled with photos and videos of Jill's antics, rescuing us from our work through the magic of procrastination. Oh, what's that? Procrastination doesn't actually rescue you from your work, it just pushes it off until later?

Hmmm. I think I'm going to look at some squirrel pictures instead of thinking about that.

https://instagram.com/p/6V5DDPjyVY/?taken-by=this_girl_is_a_squirrel

 

https://instagram.com/p/54v62YDya8/?taken-by=this_girl_is_a_squirrel

 

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The Internet thinks this ISIS suicide bomber looks like Drake.

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If you're reading this, it's too late to unsee this resemblance. Abu Bilal al-Maghribi, a deceased member of ISIS, who got enemies, got a lot of enemies, would have been pissed to learn that in this lifetime, he looked a lot like a Canadian Jew who is one of the biggest pop culture stars in the Western World. Earlier this week, @SayWallah pointed out that al-Maghribi, a suicide bomber (it's unclear what bombing he was involved in) whose photo was recently revealed, looks like Drake.

https://twitter.com/Ajlouni011/status/647209318010482689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/SayWalllah/status/650848378864009216

Soon after, "ISIS Drake" was trending on Twitter with its woes. If Drake puns could defeat ISIS, the Internet could save the world. Maybe Twitter was using the app?

https://twitter.com/ASAPParm/status/651955265038872576https://twitter.com/yurimcfly_/status/651984921213452288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/HVDES13th/status/651967022008430592https://twitter.com/phvrvohxo/status/651963802393554944https://twitter.com/TORYRAGER/status/651961119599394816https://twitter.com/SwissRoca/status/651996148182458368https://twitter.com/LordSojo/status/652188430051340288https://twitter.com/sonywuzhere/status/652151262985654273https://twitter.com/CaliCardo/status/651956340785606656https://twitter.com/TheMcBang/status/652236375731912704https://twitter.com/FundsOverBuns/status/651977037305937921

 

 

Neil Patrick Harris’s Facebook video of his kids singing will make you want him to be your dad.

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Neil Patrick Harris shared a video of his adorable family being cute and having a charming time. He captioned it "Good morning, everybody!" because celebrities and their families probably don't even get grumpy in the a.m. The video was shared via the social media platform that NPH's adorable son calls "Bookface," and includes singing, smiles, and aspirational apartment vibes. This is the level of quality and delight we should be consistently demanding from our Internet videos.

https://www.facebook.com/nph/videos/1619890411610680/

 

Latina fangirl freaks out over meeting Trump in what he swears wasn't a setup.

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Donald Trump's racism toward Latinos and harsh immigration policies have been as big a part of his campaign as his hat and hair. With his anti-Latino views so strong and well-known, it is wild to see him bring a woman from Colombia onstage literally jumping and screaming for joy. After escorting her onto the stage, Trump makes sure to turn directly towards the microphone and say, "And is this a setup? Did I ever meet you before?" Her answer to the question? ""I'm Hispanic and I'm voting for Mr. Trump! We vote for Mr. Trump! We love you all the way to the White House!"

Still on-brand with same casual misogyny, Trump says "I think she's totally beautiful and great, I never met her before I swear," and after she leaves the stage with an autographed copy of People, he adds, "That's my relationship with Hispanics."

This seems like a pre-written Taran Killam-Cecily Strong sketch. The SNL writers continue to be indebted to you, Mr. Trump.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/latina-woman-meets-trump-jumps-for-joy/2015/10/08/9fe3aed8-6dfa-11e5-91eb-27ad15c2b723_video.html

 

Disabled veteran burns 'passive aggressive douche' who said he couldn't park in a handicap spot.

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In Austin, Texas, a disabled veteran went to drive his car, only to find an angry hand-scrawled note waiting for him. Some outraged neighbor had seen his car parked in a handicap spot and decided to have a fun little rage at his expense. This neighbor had evidently noticed that the veteran's car didn't have a handicapped sticker, but hadn't noticed the "disabled veteran" license plates. This soldier was understandably mad at this, considering that he has difficulty walking due to injuries sustained in battle, but rather than run over the neighbor's car with a tank, he decided to take the high road. He left his own note underneath a photocopy of the neighbor's, explaining the situation with a sarcastic scorn as powerful as the U.S. Military.

Here's the note he found:

Hey Buddy,

Stop parking in handicap spots!!!! You DO NOT have a sticker nor do you look handicapped. I have taken a picture of your license plate and sent it to the office officer for towing by the courtesy

Stop being a jerk!

Here's his response:

Dear Passive Aggressive Douche,

First and foremost: In the state of Texas, if a vehicle has DISABLED VETERAN license plates, that vehicle is not required, BY LAW, to have a handicapped placard displayed, nor a handicapped emblem on the license plate, UNLESS that vehicle is parked on FEDERAL property. If you had bothered to spend 30 seconds and pull the miniature computer out of your pocket to research this then you would have never needed to leave me this offensive note. Considering that you took a picture of my license plate you should have been able to very clearly see the writing at the bottom that says: DISABLED VETERAN U.S. ARMED FORCES.
But it's cool. You probably just let your emotions get the best of you and felt like being a social justice hero.

Secondly: Although I may not "look" handicapped to you, I can assure you that the amount of pain I feel in my lower body from walking due to combat-sustained injuries far supersedes any level of pain you have ever felt in your entire life. Or maybe not Who am Ito say? After all, I don't even know who you are.

By the way, I would love to hear what your idea of a handicapped person "looks" like. Asshole

Lastly: You may have noticed there is a photocopy of the note you left attached to my response. I kept the original I think I'm going to frame it so I can look at it every day as to remind myself of what kind of person to NOT be.

Sincerely
The guy who doesn't look handicapped.

It just goes to show, veterans never stop being heroes. Thankfully, this hero posted both notes to Reddit for the whole world to enjoy. On behalf of all of us, I'd like to say one thing to that man: BOOM.

This woman got groped on a bus and now she's trying to find the guy who defended her.

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Women get street harassed so much it should feel like something we're all facing together, but it mostly makes us feel angry, scared and very alone. But Kaitlyn Regehr wasn't alone when some creep squeezed her ass on the bus in London. The creep was there, obviously, but also a guy who Kaitlyn describes as "tall, dark and dapper" who stepped up to defend her. Kaitlyn was kind of frazzled after getting goosed, so she never thanked him properly. Now she's trying to find him:

 

To the man on the 207 buss towards Acton last night (the tall, dark, and dapper one with the beard), Thank you for...

Posted by Kaitlyn Regehr on Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Her post has been shared almost 30,000 times, but so far the mysterious gentleman hasn't stepped up to claim his prize of a free pint and Internet fame. Kaitlyn talked about how the post's popularity changed how she looked at the incident with BuzzFeed News:

Although she was initially hesitant, Regehr contacted the police to report the harassment later on Tuesday.

“TFL [Transport For London] has a big campaign about that right now, so I texted [them] and they suggested I contact the police, which, at first, I thought was a ridiculous thing to do, but I did. They sent someone over…and there was something quite validating in being taken seriously for it.

“I’m sure that it’s the same experience for many women. I guess this experience has been a huge eye-opener for how much I let that behavior go. I felt uncomfortable and kind of vulnerable in that situation, but I probably wouldn’t have done anything more if that passenger hadn’t stepped in.”

Let this be a lesson to us all: Ladies, you don't have to let it go. Gentlemen, you might get a free drink and described as "dapper."


This horrifying video shows a bridge collapsing under some hikers in real-time.

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Some hikers fell off a bridge in New Zealand and caught the whole thing on video. The group of four French tourists was traversing the "Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk" when a cable on the bridge "released," causing them to plummet down 30 feet into a ravine. WARNING: This video with bring back your anxiety problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWTnV8uZ4ys

No one was injured, luckily. The park has closed off the bridge and is investigating the incident, which they're calling an "extremely rare occurrence," as the bridge is supposed to hold up to 10 people. Sure, park. Sure.

Kelsey Grammer somehow managed to wear a t-shirt that's both pro-gun and anti-abortion.

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Do you want to see a photo of Kelsey Grammer wearing an anti-abortion shirt? Well, you're coming precariously close to that happening. The moment draws near. It's almost here... An Instagram account that seemingly belongs to Kelsey Grammer and his wife Kayte shared the photo below. It shows Kelsey, beloved star of Frasier and surprisingly intense Republican, wearing a shirt that says, "Would it bother us more if they used guns?" along with the website info for an anti-abortion group.

https://instagram.com/p/8gmEz4nlJU/

Um, Kelsey, you're a celebrity. You don't have to wear t-shirts people mail you. You could be wearing an expensive super soft button-down. You know, the kind that are only available for famous people? (And if that's not true, what's the point?)

The anti-abortion group who made the shirt also posted the photo on their Facebook page, drawing tossed salad and scrambled eggs into the fray.

https://www.facebook.com/abort73/photos/a.331485114415.189770.7644864415/10153755716669416/?type=3

The photo is being widely shared by pro-lifers overjoyed at having one single celebrity on their side. Meanwhile, streaming Frasier reruns just got a lot more emotionally complicated. Is this the most controversial social media post since Kylie Jenner's Spanx selfie?

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The cast of 'Bring it On' reunited and are still sexy, cute, and popular to boot.

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Bring It On is 15 years old, and that's hard to believe until you remember that Gabrielle Union's character was named Isis. In their annual reunions issue, Entertainment Weekly brought the squad back together to discuss their days in the cheerocracy. 

The movie sounds like it was as fun to film as it is to watch:

JESSE BRADFORD Did we hook up? Well, there was certainly a degree to which, walking around that set, I felt like a very lucky guy and got to meet a lot of very pretty girls who were interested in talking to me. [Laughs]

UNION We were really close to Tijuana, we were away from home, we had money — you know, at the time, a $100 per diem is quite a bit.

ELIZA DUSHKU There are some rumors online about our extracurricular activities, but I maintain that I always showed up to work on time. Without having to be yelled at by a producer.

BRADFORD I would love to set the record straight about that, if you want the truth — or maybe the truth with some omissions. First of all, it was Rosarito, not Tijuana. It was me, Eliza, Rini Bell, and this dude Lance, one of the male cheerleaders on the Toros. I’m gonna blur the details of how and why, but needless to say, we got arrested. We had to go in front of a judge — I use that term loosely here — and explain what happened, and he let us go… They said that one of the producers, Max Wong, had to bail us out, but I don’t think any of them knew what happened until well after the fact.

DUSHKU Thank God for those little disposable cameras that nobody ever really developed, so we never ended up on TMZ.

UNION First rule of Fight Club, don’t talk about Fight Club. There were a lot of adventures, I will say that. [Laughs]

 

The cast say that they have people quoting the movie to them all the time:

DUSHKU: When I lived in L.A., wonderful, enthusiastic gay men would come up to me and reenact cheers. Like “That’s all right, that’s okay, you’re gonna pump our gas one day!” People do the middle-finger tattoo smear, which is odd because they’re giving me the finger.

UNION I get lines from the spoof — “It’s already been broughten.” I don’t remind them that that actually wasn’t in our movie.

KIRSTEN DUNST That wasn’t? [Laughs] I thought it was.

BRADFORD When people come up to me, it’s all Bring It On — with maybe Swim Fan being a close second and Hackers after that. I walked into a bar, and some hipster chick went, “I got the door, Tor,” which is a Richard Hillman line. And I was like, why would you just say that twice and then walk away? [Laughs]

DUNST People want me to do the cheers with them… And “I’ll get the door, Tor” — that’s one of my friends’ favorites.

In the video, they discuss what their characters would be doing now. Union says Isis would be a "Johnny Cochrane type" defense attorney, and the more pessimistic Bradford suggests that Cliff would be dead from a drug overdose.

Awesome, oh wow, like totally freaks me out, I mean, right on, because Toros still are number one.

http://bcove.me/vq2hx1fp

 

 

A mom posted about her 4-year-old daughter getting hit by a boy and what it does not mean.

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A tale as old as time: a little girl gets pantsed on the playground by a little boy, or he tugs her braids, or maybe throws a rock at her face, whatever. We all know what it means: Twue Wuv! That's True Love for grown-ups, except if grown-ups did that to each other it would be called assault. Of course, there's only so much you can do to keep aggressive little bundles of joy from pummeling one another because they haven't learned to use words yet. When it does happen, we definitely shouldn't be telling girls it means "he likes you." Especially when you end up in the hospital for stitches like Merritt Smith's 4-year-old:

 

"I bet he likes you."Dear man at the registration desk at Nationwide Children's hospital, l'm positive that you didn't...

Posted by Merritt Smith on Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Merritt had a real head of steam after the person sitting at the registration desk at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio told her daughter just that, as though it's a consolation prize to be "liked" by the person who split your face open. Her post has struck a cord amongst parents everywhere, and probably a large number of women who just realized why they've always thought men treating them like sh*t was a good sign in a relationship. It starts young! Look, even renowned feminist film He's Just Not That Into You addresses it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajQeSp2hGTI

Exactly. Unless he does call and you're in a relationship. Then that's domestic abuse. Good for you, Merritt. Tell your kids: you don't hurt what you like.

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