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Aussie kid toughs out living nightmare, hiccups his way through the national anthem.

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Even though this ranks up there with showing up to school in your underwear as far as childhood nightmare material goes, this young Australian struggles through a hiccup fit to belt out the best version of his country's John-Williams-knockoff of a national anthem that he can. Second place prize goes to the players, who by the end were mostly biting their hats to keep from laughing at him, and the commentators who knew exactly how much of a triumph this was.


Al Roker forecasts the downfall of taxis as one passes him for being black in front of his son.

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In addition to having mysterious powers of meteorological prognostication, Al Roker is one of the most recognizable African-Americans in the country. Unfortunately, even one of America's most famous black men can still get passed by a cab in New York only to watch it pick up a white passenger moments later. (It sucks when it happens to not-famous people, too.) Discrimination of service based on race is illegal for NYC taxis.

While this has probably happened many times, something about today's incident was clearly a last straw of sorts for Roker, who used his powers not only to predict this week's forecast, but the coming supremacy of Uber over traditional livery companies.

Adding insult to insult, this incident occurred in front of Roker's 13-year-old son, forcing a man who had risen so high in life that he once sharted at the White House to explain to his son that, yes, racism was reaching out and touching them.

Although Roker hasn't said publicly when and where this snubbing occurred, the Taxi and Limousine Commission of New York has apparently received his complaint. In a statement to the Daily News, TLC chair Meera Joshi said, "Service refusal goes to the core of the taxi industry's social contract with the riding public and it will not be tolerated. We're grateful that Mr. Roker took the time to file a complaint, and I can assure him that we will investigate this thoroughly and take every appropriate action."

It seems like Al is willing to see this one all the way through. It would be in the best interest of the TLC to listen to the guy. After all, the weather has turned against them in business enough.

Hearing every 'How It's Made' pun in a row is how you manufacture a groan.

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There are many good things to be said about the Discovery Science channel series How It's Made, mostly having to do with how it's a successful example of the sorts of programs people enjoyed on channels like Discovery and TLC before reality programming arrived—but its clever wordplay is not one of them. Granted, the artless, awkwardly shoehorned-in puns are charming in their own way, one at a time... once a week... mixed in with infotaining documentaries on the processes behind various products. All at once, its like witnessing an uncool dad freebasing lame jokes in their purest form; this is how words get played out.

Bride and her bridesmaids colorfully trash their outfits after she gets ditched via text.

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Some brides (and some divorced husbands) take part in "Destroy the Dress" activities after their wedding, but there was no "after" for Kilee Manulak of Tampa Bay, Florida, because her fiancé texted her the week of their wedding to break off their two-year engagement. “I just kind of went numb,” said Kilee, who had to call everyone and cancel. Seems like that jerk fiancé could have at least texted everyone else, too. “My maid of honor, my mom, and all my friends just helped me" with that task. She was understandably depressed for several days, but then the Tampa Bay Color Fun Fest happened, and Kilee and her bridesmaids decided that their dresses would make some cathartic canvasses:

Kilee ended up being a star of the festival, and hopes her good time can inspire others. She'll keep the dress and get the colors out if she can (although it seems just fine with them). If she can't end up salvaging that one, there's always this one that attacks anyone that comes too close. It may be what she needs right now.

Sympathy

Short fuse.

John Oliver takes down that scourge of the earth, the penny.

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John Oliver, the world's foremost voice of reason, took on a topic that the people literally has in their back pocket: the penny. Apparently, it takes a whole penny and point seven of a penny to make one coin, and the majority of them just end up in the garbage. Pennies often just end up on the floor and subsequently may be swallowed by a dog, which as Oliver says, "means it has more Lincoln in it than Mary Todd." Boom!

Enjoy that mental image of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln doing it, and a penny for the rest of his thoughts, here:

Daisy the disabled dog loves to run with her new prosthetic paws, and you’ll love her underbite.

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If Adele reawakened your long-suppressed ability to emote this past weekend, the cuteness and resilience of Daisy the dog will elevate your newfound capacity for feels.

Daisy was abandoned on the streets of Los Angeles at two months old, and was scheduled to be euthanized before she was rescued. According to her owner, Sheena Main, "Daisy was born with dislocated joints in both of her elbows, right shoulder, and back hips, which resulted in her deformity." She had previously used a wheelchair, but it was putting too much pressure on her spine, so she began to walk with prosthetic legs in August.

 

Can you see the difference in her walk!? #soproud #daisyabled #underbiteunite

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Her prosthetic legs helped make her pirate Halloween costume even cuter with historical accuracy:

 

Argghh Happy Halloween! #underbiteunite

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After months of adapting to the prosthetics, Daisy was able to run for the first time. This pure, unadulterated joy is something that humans can only hope to experience. 


People think Nicki Minaj threw shade at J.Lo at last night's AMAs. Feud or facial expression?

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Did Nicki Minaj actually throw shade at J.Lo during last night's American Music Awards, or is the shade-hungry public looking for shade where none exists?

J.Lo performed an opening number featuring dances to the top songs from the past year, including Minaj's hit Anaconda. During that portion, the camera cut to Minaj's face. She looked to the side. The Internet is running with that. 

Is this really enough to constitute shade? Have our shade standards become so low?

Maybe if they had shown Minaj's face during "Bad Blood," which could have brought up memories of the offensive comments Taylor Swift made to her pre-VMAs, then shade could be argued. Or if they had done a close-up of her expression during that horrible song by Ed Sheeran. But this seems like flimsy shade evidence. 

To settle things, Minaj herself denies any occurrence of shade. 

And really, why would there be any shade here? J.Lo's performance is awesome. How often do we get award show hosts expertly dancing their butts off? You think Ricky Gervais is going to do this for us?

The Miss Piggy and Kermit parody of Adele's 'Hello' video fits their twisted relationship perfectly.

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There have been a lot of ups and downs in the relationship between Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog. This clip serves as an ad for their show, but Adele's "Hello" also really speaks to their trials and tribulations over the years, and their current breakup. You even see Miss Piggy physically abusing Kermie, which we may have laughed at as children but not now. Now we're grown.

Will we see them reunited? Will Miss Piggy work on her anger issues, maybe in some kind of program? Kermit answering the phone is a hopeful sign, though it's hard to know what to hope for in this situation. Better listen to Adele and really feel it out.

11 people who are grateful for truly bizarre things this Thanksgiving.

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Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on your blessings and be grateful. Your family. Your health. Or you know, whatever weird different and unique thing you appreciate and also had to tell the world about. You just do you, thankful people. Tap or click images to enlarge.

1. It's the one meal of the year in America without bacon.

What a pig.

2. Seconded.

Thank you for the nightmares.

3. They're just saying what we're all thinking.

He's the #3 topic of conversation at the dinner table, behind football and immigrants.

4. It's why John Google invented it.

Ewwwww. A McDonald's bathroom.

5. And so it begins.

Written by a young David Lee Roth.

6. From the Beach Boys' Thanksgiving album.

They're talking about a surfer's car, right?

7. Around the corner, fudge is made.

Her boobs make mashed potatoes and gravy?

8. A spoooooky Thanksgiving.

As in tried to live before you murdered them?

9. Bananas.

Somehow worse than those adult people with Twilight posters.

10. Or even something more fancy, like chicken fingers or strips.

Enjoy your three bites of Thanksgiving dinner, fussy child!

11. Some say that to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

And she got to spend Thanksgiving with all of her loved one.

The raw mic feed from Adele's 'SNL' performance was leaked and it's eerily intimate.

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The raw mic track from Adele's SNL performance has somehow been leaked, and it's really good. So good, in fact, it leads one to question why she even bothers having instruments. Different uploads of the audio file are making their way around the Internet and then getting taken down, so listen to it while you still can and while you still feel emotional.

Kylie shares Snapchat that suggests she and Tyga didn't break up, 'everyone needs to chill.'

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It turns out that Kylie Jenner and rapper Tyga actually didn't break up. Cancel this week's therapy session because everything is juuust fine. 

On Friday, TMZ reported that Jenner and Tyga had broken up for a very good reason: "It's something Tyga did." The breakup was confirmed by an unnamed source, plus suggestive clues—Kylie didn't wish Tyga a happy birthday on social media and none of the Kardashians attended his birthday party. What was going on? What was the something Tyga did? Did he remind Kylie of their super weird age difference? Questions abounded.

It is now unclear if Tyga did something.

But on Saturday night, Kylie shared a Snapchat that offered a very different story. A story of people needing to chill. The photo shows the legs of Kylie and Tyga, who seem to be happily sitting next to each other on some type of furniture. (Other outlets are saying it's a couch, but isn't it possibly a daybed? Hasn't this incident taught us anything about being less hasty with our assumptions?) Superimposed over the photo is the text "Everyone needs to chill."

That could be true. 

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Belgians under lockdown had a brilliant strategy to outwit the terrorists: tweeting cat pics.

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On Sunday night, November 22nd, Belgium's capital city of Brussels remained under lockdown. Police asked citizens to clear the streets to stay safe as they conducted a manhunt, looking to arrest people who were involved in the attacks in Paris on November 13th. 

During this vital, potentially dangerous operation, Brussels police asked residents not to tweet about police movements, because it could compromise the mission:

Defense Minister Steven Vandeput tweeted out asking for support:

Belgians responded in the classic European spirit of surrealism, tweeting adorable pictures of cats to cheer each other up without compromising the police's mission: 

Plus, the hashtag yielded some jokes on the joke:

What started as an adorable bit actually became a powerful display of solidarity and defiance.

People from around the world congratulated Belgium on their brilliant use of the hashtag.

The police thanked Belgians for their discretion, and got in on the joke by offering a bowl of cat food. Way to be, Belgium!


A teacher made her students sing a song about Islam that confused everyone until they got angry.

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A Range County, California teacher is facing a backlash after teaching students about Islam by making up a terrible song parody. It's sung to the tune of Rachel Platten's "Fight Song," and boy, is it incomprehensible. It's hard to tell whether it's pro-Islam or anti-Islam or if the person who wrote it knows anything about Islam that they didn't infer from watching Aladdin. Here are some of the lyrics:

Wut?

The teacher who wrote it might see themselves as a budding Weird Al, but their verses left parents angry. Very angry! Nichole Negron—a mother of one of the Spring View Middle School seventh graders commanded to sing—and the student's grandmother Susan Negron are complaining to the school board that the ditty wasn't run by parents before being added to the curriculum. They apparently fear that singing about Allah might magically convert the kids. Susan tells CBS Los Angeles, “I believe that by singing this song, the children feel comfortable believing that maybe Allah is the only god, and maybe that they should start following him."

Yup, it's just that easy.

With the recent attacks in Paris and controversy swirling around the Syrian refugee crisis, it's understandable that a song about Muslims that includes the lyrics, "They might only have one god, but they can make an explosion," could be considered poorly timed, at best. However, a representative from the school says the lesson in question finished shortly before November 13, and there was no malicious intent.

Ojaala Ahmad, a spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says she doesn't understand this song either.

Our reaction was that obviously the teacher could have had a better choice of words. Especially with the recent attacks ISIS has been doing, knowing that this potentially Islamaphobic backlash might come about, what was the teacher’s intention?

"What was the teacher's intention?" is the main question from everybody, but maybe it's best to just assume they're no Adele, and leave it at that.

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New Yorker falls asleep on subway platform, wakes up to a rat taking a selfie on his phone.

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Ever since Pizza Rat stole the hearts of New Yorkers and internet users everywhere, copycats (copy rats?) have been popping up. There was Double Pizza Rat, Robot Pizza Rat, and now... Selfie Rat

Don Richards of Connecticut was waiting at a Brooklyn subway stop when he saw a man asleep on the platform, holding his phone (first red flag). Richards was recording when a rat apparently crawled onto the dude's lap, stepped on the phone, and triggered the camera. The resulting flash woke the man up, and he was just as horrified as you would be in that situation.

Richards is said to have talked to the man, and then exchanged the video for the rat's handiwork:

Rat selfie game on point?

Here's the local news coverage of this suspicious incident. Is this thing staged, or an inevitable product of evolution? Only time will tell.

Sofia Vergara shared tons of her own pics of her wedding day, made tabloid helicopters obsolete.

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You should be sitting down when you hear this shocking news. Beautiful Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara looked very wonderful and amazing at her wedding yesterday. Are you okay? Do you need a glass of water? It's a lot to process. And, unlike some people who want a shred of privacy on a very important day in their personal lives, Vergara shared tons of pics from her Palm Beach nuptials to actor Joe Manganiello on November 22. She wore a Zuhair Murad gown and, brace yourself, actually looked stunning.

 

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Ma team❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Can you believe this? (Yes.)

Maybe watching Kylie Jenner spank Gigi Hadid will help you remember who Gigi Hadid is.

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Famous-for-being-hot person Kylie Jenner spanked paid-for-being-hot person Gigi Hadid on a Snapchat captured for posterity (tee hee) by TMZ. The spanking apparently took place in a hotel room after the two presented at the American Music Awards yesterday, though no one knows what naughty transgressions Gigi took part in to earn her walloping. Maybe she forgot to tag Kylie on Instagram, or something.

There you go. 8 seconds of shrieking and titillation that isn't calculated at all. Just like when Ariana Grande kissed a girl and "accidentally" posted it to her hundreds of thousands of followers. Being a beautiful young woman with an enormous social media following is so disorienting!

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