Some pranksters put up fake bench plaques all over the city center of Chester, England. The plaques are meant to satirize the city government's harsh attitude towards dealing with homeless residents. They are also response to a bill that's been proposed to further regulate public spaces and make them more family friendly.

The plaques were removed by the city council, which provided the following justification, according to The Chester Chronicle: 

The Councilhasnowremovedtheplaques and is keen to track down the rebellious artists. "Some people may find them offensive," Maria Byrne, head of place operations for Cheshire West and Chester Council, told The Chester Chronicle. "It has cost the Council taxpayer money for officers to locate and remove them. If anyone knows who is responsible we would like to hear from them."

The artists remain anonymous, but one of them gave a short statement on the matter:

"This was all done in good grace and with no malice or thought of financial gain," said one of the unidentified street artists. “We just hope the residents and visitors of Chester enjoyed them while they could.

They're not the heroes Chester deserves, but the ones it needs right now.

Chrissy Teigen, a model whose nipples wish to be free, is pregnant. She announced the happy news on Instagram last week after having previously gone public about her struggle to conceive. It was a beautiful moment, so of course the Internet had to ruin it. 

On Sunday, Teigen posted a selfie showing her baby bump and captioned it, "Somebody is early to the party."

Then, lovely commenters started writing about how huge Teigen had gotten and began speculating that she's having twins. Teigen hilariously retweeted a lot of these Nosy Nellies along with a sad face emoji (though many of the comments have now been deleted, sad face emoji). She insisted that she's only having one baby and requested that people get out of her uterus.

And now, thanks to those commenters, Chrissy Teigen preg tweet privileges have been revoked for everybody.

What constitutes appropriate revenge for cheating is very subjective. Sometimes it involves paying for a public billboard announcing the indiscretion, and sometimes it involves actually making money by selling your lover's things. The conversation below shows a very petty revenge, but it is oh-so satisfying. After finding his ex-fiancée having sex with another man in their apartment, Imgur user Aronaf very wisely gave her the boot. She persists in trying to get back with him, alternating from wheedling apologies to threats to unmitigated rage. But he has the real last word:

Nothing shows you're completely divorced from the meaning of what someone is saying like correcting their grammar. Ding ding ding, you are not on his level, girl. It's over.

5. Bernie Sanders, who was forced to address the question of whether he owns enough underwear. 

On SNL this weekend, Larry David did a perfect impression of Bernie Sanders in a sketch about the Democratic Primary Debate. At one point, David as Sanders explains that he owns "one pair of underwear. That’s it. Some of these billionaires they have three, four pairs." The joke killed, and Sanders addressed the controversy at an event in Iowa City yesterday, saying, "Last week, I bought my second pair of underwear. That’s a joke. Please don’t write it down. I have an ample supply of underwear." So you claim, Bernie, but can you prove it?

4. Fake reviewers on Amazon, who are getting sued by the company for being fake reviewers.

Amazon, the extremely successful online retail giant, filed a lawsuit on Friday against 1,000 people who got paid $5 a pop to write fake positive product reviews. The integrity of user reviews is extremely important to the site, since they determine so much of what people buy. Wouldn't you rather buy an ice cube tray with 5 stars than an ice cube tray with 4 stars? If people start wantonly throwing around positive reviews, customers are going to get hurt (when their faulty ice cube trays crack). It's scary to think that we might not be able to trust strangers on the Internet.

3. Stephen Harper because his 10-year reign is probably coming to an end.

You know. Stephen Harper. The prime minister of Canada for the last decade? You had no idea who the prime minister of Canada was, did you? Oh well, there's no point in getting to know the leader of the Conservative Party now, because he is probably on the way out. Harper, who recently said he would support banning civil servants from wearing a niqab, has pushed the country to the right with stricter immigration policies and scaled back environmental protections. Today, voters, rightly terrified that Canada is starting to resemble America, headed to the polls to vote for Anyone Else. Seriously though, wouldn't you want to vote for Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party?

2. Selena Gomez fans who never want her to have anything to do with Justin Bieber ever again.

Fans freaked this weekend when a duet apparently recorded by pop stars and exes Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber was briefly leaked on Drake's OVO Sound Radio. The song, called "Strong," has since been removed from Soundcloud, and all that remains are the frantic tweets of weak-kneed fans.

Every leak happens for a reason, so if you missed the song the first time around, there will definitely be more opportunities to listen to it and then wonder why you cared. 

1. Rabbis everywhere, because Miley Cyrus chose to honor the Jewish religion with this outfit. 

James Franco got bar mitzvahed this past Shabbos (Saturday, for you gentiles), and the entertainment was Miley Cyrus in a blue thong leotard, silver thigh-high boots, and Jewish Star wristbands. Never has the Jewish religion been so scandalously made a mockery of since, well, since James Franco had a bar mitzvah. The actor, 37, is Jewish, and had a real life bar mitzvah not long ago. This TV one, overseen by Rabbi Jeff Goldblum, was part of his and Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity fundraiser for Alzheimer's research. Zac Efron made a cameo as Franco's foreskin, which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense.

The Back to the Future movie franchise captured the hearts and imaginations of anyone who's ever dreamed of traveling through time to make their parents bang. In the sequel, Marty and Doc travel to the future — Oct 21, 2015, and OMG — THAT'S JUST A FEW DAYS AWAY! Everyone is losing it over Back to the Future Day, and auto maker Ford is no exception. In honor of the holiday, the car company is finally giving people what they've long demanded: a flux capacitor on a Ford Fiesta. (The flux capacitor is the key component to time travel, duh.)

The cost is a whopping $1,219,390, but who cares. Once you purchase a flux capacitor, it's easy enough to go back in time, invent Google, and stop your crush from seeing you get de-pantsed at a pool party. Ford does recommend you “avoid your past self at all costs, as this could potentially cause a rift in the space-time continuum." But again who cares, because this is obviously not real. Which is too bad, things would be so different if Amanda never accidentally saw your dong.

A pregnant Muslim woman was verbally assaulted on a London bus, and the video is horrifying. The defendant, identified as Simone Joseph, yells for almost five minutes at a group of Muslim women, including the pregnant Hanane Yakoubi, all while Joseph's two-year-old daughter is in the stroller right next to her. Among other things, she tells them to "go back to [their] country" and to "go home and make a bomb," and she accuses them of polygamy. She calls them "dirty people," "ISIS b*tches," "sandrat b*tches," and "devils." She also threatens to kick Yakoubi in the stomach so she'll "never have children again." If all of that awfulness doesn't baffle you enough, she then starts filming them (?), instead of the other way around. The bus driver repeatedly tries to calm her down, but to no avail.

Joseph handed herself into the police three days later, after the video went viral. She pleaded guilty to "causing racially aggravated distress" and was released on bail. She'll be sentenced on November 13th. She was seen leaving the courtroom in tears.

Yakoubi's lawyer confirmed that the attack came from absolutely nowhere. This also isn't the first time it's happened to her — according to Yakoubi:

Every time I go out I’m afraid I might find myself in this situation as something similar has happened on a bus on another occasion because I am Muslim.

Joseph is supposedly apologetic, according to her lawyer:

She apologises for the hurt and distress caused to the persons on the receiving end of her behaviour. She recognises this was totally unacceptable and it was totally out of character.

She is appalled, shocked and disgusted by what happened on that day. She wants to convey her regret to the victims.

 She didn't seem so apologetic to the police, though:

Joseph told police it was a “lapse” and had been “taken out of context”.

See? It was just a lapse that the media is misconstruing. Don't tell me you've never accidentally gone on a five-minute long expletive-filled hate speech to a total stranger for no reason. Come on. We're all human. 

Video game connoisseur Shaun Kitchener is a bit obsessed with the popular game Pokémon Red, a Gameboy Advance re-release. Apparently, the world of the game is littered with Pokémon trainers who great you with suggestive one-liners that really tickled his imagination. He began to wonder what would happen if he used them to try and pick up guys. Here's a sample, if you're unfamiliar with these horny little characters:

Even though he is in a committed relationship, Shaun signed up for on the dating app Grindr to try and catch 'em all. He writes in a blog post that it was hard to maintain conversations with anyone using disjointed sentences and no dick pics, but what flirtatious "cave talk" he did manage to capture is pretty funny (people's photos covered with Pokémon for privacy):

Shaun doesn't really get into what this experiment was supposed to prove, if anything. It's more like a secret love letter to Pokémon and hooking up, two things should go together far more frequently. Hopefully, Shaun will continue with his niche experiment, as long as his boyfriend doesn't mind.

As long as there have been teenage girls, there have been overprotective dads. The first cave man was probably like, "Ugh, ugh, fire, die." when his cave-daughter's boyfriend picked her up for their first date at the wooly mammoth carcass. So when Wisconsin dad (and cutie pie) Benjamin Schock told his teen daughter's homecoming date, "Whatever you do to my daughter, I'm gonna do to you." No one realized he'd soon make good on that promise.

Oh but he did...

Benjamin's wife Sharee was taking pictures of their daughter and her boyfriend before the dance when Benjamin decided to go for the photo bomb, jumping in and posing for the hilarious picture. 

“My husband is a big-hearted teddy bear, so it was his way of being silly with a pinch of ‘I’m watching you. buddy,'" Sharee told Buzzfeed.

The picture was an instant classic, spreading smiles on Facebook and then Imgur, where it's been viewed nearly 3 million times. Sharee adds that her family is focused on having fun and being positive, especially since her husband is currently battling multiple brain tumors.

“We hope that above anything else this pictures shows the love and protective nature of a dad with his little girl, but in a playful and not-so-intimidating manner,” she said.

Great work, Dad! Now they'll never go past second base. 

A motorcyclist and his girlfriend were knocked off of their bike by a swerving car, and after being confronted by another motorcyclist, the driver of the car was all like "I don't care." The video of the accident, which was taken by the friend (a fellow motorcyclist riding behind them), depicts the two riders trying to pass the car and getting hit after it suddenly jerks out of the lane (the incident starts at about 1:40):

The motorcyclist suffered a road rash while his girlfriend sustained arm injures. The driver gave two different justifications for the accident:

The driver initially blames his swerving on the fact that the rider tried to pass him over double-yellow lines, which Sanders later admitted to in a clarificationpostonFacebook. Then he turns around to say that he was “stung by a wasp,” intertwined with several more “I don’t care” statements while the filming motorcyclist snaps a picture of his license plate. 

Here is that clarification post. It's in all caps, so everything is really clear: 

The driver wasn't arrested, but according to the biker, he's "gonna be prosecuted." 

The driver's response to this assurance was probably just "whatevs." 

If you are a BuzzFeed employee, you can move heaven and earth. Or, at the very least, you can command famous animals to travel for up to eight hours in a car because you have The Power Of The Internet behind you. Corey is one such BuzzFeed employee. Corey's girlfriend Becky started showing him pictures of the same Internet-famous Corgis all the time, and Corey realized that he could wield his Internet power to bring the Corgis to her IRL as a surprise. The result is this video, in which Becky starts crying because the Corgis are SO CUTE:

Beings from the Internet showing up at your house sounds like one of those things that is either awesome or terrifying. We're glad it was the former in the case of Corey and his Corgi-loving girlfriend Becky.

What fresh hell has the American imagination wrought for us this year? Well, the hell may not be fresh as in original, but it is actually really, really scary in how weirdly dumb it is. This week means it's officially time for Americans to panic-Google Halloween costumes, and the data-crunching real estate blog Estately has created this map of which costumes each state Googles more than any other. Except, that is, for a handful of states labeled "none," which all Googled the same tired ideas as the other states, but at lower rates. As unoriginal as these states seem, however, they all pale in comparison to South Dakota, where they search "Costume Ideas" more than anyone else. At least they're honest (with themselves) about it. 

Other highlights in the map below include Texas's completely non-shocking shocking costume, Louisianans' simple desire to become a gun, Doc McStuffins (which was a new one for this writer), and "Slutty Pumpkin," a slutty costume so amusing it could well be a prank costume inserted into Halloween store shelves. The rest of it is pretty much horrifying in its implication:

Wait. Arkansas' #1 costume is Rock? The Rock? A personification of Little Rock itself? The spirit of Rock 'n Roll? Indiana is Tree? COW, South Carolina? What's next, a potato? Oh. Hi, Ohio.

Bradley Cooper already came out in support of Jennifer Lawrence and equal pay for women after Lawrence's recent essay about making less money than her male costars. But, according to the Washington Post, Cooper is now going even further: going forward, "he'll tell his female colleagues what he's making before they ink a deal." This will allow his female costars to more confidently tell studios "LOL, try again" when they try to offer women less than their male costars.

Of course, we're not all movie stars (yet — but we're probably only, like, 20 years away from a law that requires every American citizen to appear in a feature film, right?). But this sort of transparency is becoming more common, and having big names behind it can only help. Countries including Belgium and Austria already require businesses to release information on what men and women make in the same position. And according to an August article from Forbes, some tech companies are moving towards gender pay transparency on their own. It's surprising that they'd even need to do that, though, because tech is an industry where men and women have traditionally been treated so equally.

You might remember that time recently when we all got to see J Bieber's substantial wang, and then his dad made it weird by tweeting "what do you feed that thing. #proud daddy." Well, Justin Bieber recently went on one of those "two guys and a lady" radio shows and discussed his feelings about his dad's comment:

"That's just a dad thing to say," said Bieber. That's a dad thing to say? What about "Two peanuts were walking down the street. One was a salted"? Or "Would you like cereal for breakfast, because your mother is out of town and that is the only thing I know how to make"? Or "I'm sorry we haven't been closer, my child, but now that death's cold grip is wrapping around me, I wish that I had spent more time with you"?

Either way, Bieber way could have at least answered his dad's question and told us all what he does feed that thing. 

Kids say the darndest things, especially when it comes to defending the honor of their hometowns. Jimmy Kimmel Live took to the streets to explore the origins of the New York vs. LA rivalry. Is it learned, or innate? 

Special shout out to the six-year-old who calls out LA for plastic surgery obsession, and the tiny Mets fan for taking shots at the Dodgers. 

Sure, we all know that Zooey is quirky. She has proven it time and again with her acting roles, ukelele ditties, and preeminent bangs. But now Deschanel has exceeded our quirkiest expectations by doing something so quirky we never even thought it was possible. She named her baby after a sea otter.

Deschanel has revealed that her daughter is named Elsie Otter. Deschanel's reps announced the birth of the three-month-old in August along with Deschanel's under-the-radar marriage to producer Jacob Pechenik. But this is the first time the pair has publicly announced Little Z's name. They explained the meaning in great detail to People:

“It’s Elsie…” Deschanel began, while Pechenik finished, “Otter.” “Like the animal,” the actress explained, with her husband adding, “Sea otter!

That's pretty cute. But definitely not adorkable.

Yesterday, Canada voted in a new Prime Minister, and he's definitely someone you want to mountie. Americans are glad that Justin Trudeau is now on top. 

People all over Twitter have weighed in on the matter.

It got graphic.

It brought great joy.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The upgrade is clear.

Feminists approve.

Even God is psyched.

Important pictures are coming to light.

Some say he even looks like Ezra Koenig, including Ezra Koenig.

Many think he is the ultimate male model.

The imaginary boyfriend in Canada is real.

Halloween is the best holiday we have, and not because of candy or sexy costumes. It's because of Nightmares Fear Factory's annual tradition of posting photos of people absolutely losing their sh*t in their haunted house. It's assumed they're just yelling inarticulate, guttural please for help, but there's no knowing for sure. So, here's a few guesses about what these poor tormented people are actually saying in their most vulnerable moments. Aside from, "I peed my pants a little." 

1. "Sup, I'm Mr. Cool Guy."

2."We can't be a rainbow if everyone wears purple."

3. "I'm your seatbelt in life, mom."

4. "Did you say, 'Go Blue?'"

5. "Ugh, Ed Sheeran is playing again."

6. "Duhhh, my lunch was thiiiiiissss big."

7. " HOLD MY BAG, I'M GOING TO THE BATHROOM!!!!"

8. "Be supportive. Check my pits."

9. "Do you even lift?"

10. "I'm attracted to your BRRRAAAAAIIINNNNSSS."

11. "Filippo Brunelleschi was the founder of linear perspective!"

12. "Let's line up in order of bravery, bros."

13. "I'm not drunk. Who said I was? You are."

14. "All I need in this life of sin, is me and my girlfriend. And she needs that hat."

15. "Hi guys, I'm in the cast of 'The Lion King' and I feel a song coming on."

16. "My date is a statue of 'The Thinker' in a rain coat."

17.  "I can't jump two people, yet. But we're all always growing."

18. "Ha ha, I feel silly today."

19. "FRIES."

20. "The cheekbone's connected to the chin bone."

21. "Don't be alarmed, but your jacket tastes like mayo."

Or maybe they're all yelling, "FAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRT!!!!!!!!!!" because someone tooted.