The company Kellie K Apparel made a strapless bra that's engineered to not fall down, apparently using the same technology that geckos use to climb up vertical surfaces, and preorders are still available through the end of the day. It's good news for people who want to wear a strapless bra without their boobs popping out like a monster in a horror movie.
Reddit user Myhusbandwillbeacat asked the very straightforward but titillating question, "What is one thing about sex everyone should know?" Some of the answers people provide are meant to educate the uninitiated, while others seek to dispel some of the mystery surrounding real sex, as opposed to the erotic contortionist porn performances folks are more apt to come across. Most of the answers are pretty basic, which leads to more questions. Because until you've done it, you just don't know.
First of all, since this is an article about how there are even more plot-hinting tidbits in the trailer released yesterday by LucasFilm, be prepared for The Force Awakens spoilers. You signed up for this. In this new trailer tailored specifically for the Chinese market (where the film doesn't arrive until January 9), introduced by 25-year-old Chinese actor, singer, and mega-celebrity-you've-never-heard-of Lu Han, there is much more dialogue between Daisy Ridley's Rey and John Boyega's Finn, especially a scene that's very reminiscent (albeit with much more action) of the last time a hero in drab rags needed to get off a desert planet quickly. There's also more from villain Kylo Ren, whose neo-Imperialist vision has a few more action shots as well, and a new nostalgic shot of the Millennium Falcon leading a fleet of X-Wings. (The trailer starts at 0:16)
As complicated and divisive as our politics may get, there is still one thing that can bring all Americans together: dessert, and eating too much of it. Thus, even when people are replacing Darth Vader's lines with Donald Trump quotes to show how evil he is and starting real dick-move memes where they imply that strangers are terrorists, we can all band together as a nation to drool over the 475-lb. scale-model gingerbread White House that's inside the real White House.* The treat, created by White House executive pastry chef Susan Morrison, has been in the works for 11 months, and it's a beauty:
The Secret Service should consider putting three-story-tall guards in front of the real White House as well.https://www.instagram.com/p/-5iGqVH1eY/?taken-by=kellymdoug
The house is gorgeous and ornate, but it's also probably the RoboCop of desserts: what once was a normal, edible dessert has been transformed into a creature of stability and longevity. The gingerbread treat has to be displayed in the White House for a month, after all, ideally without collapsing into a post-apocalyptic version of itself. Here's a close-up:
Those inner guards spend all their time staring at poles.
The gingerbread house is a stunning reminder that we shouldn't fear our fellow Americans just because they're different from us, unless they don't like chocolate. That's just weird.
* Which is kind of weird when you think about it. What if you had a scale-model gingerbread version of you sitting inside you?
You might remember Jonathan Garuano as the Uber driver who got his passengers to sing along with The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face" and then edited it into a video so delightful that it actually makes you wish you were in a car. Now he's back, but with a twist: DJ duo (aka what you call a band in 2015) The Chainsmokers recorded a real-deal music video for their new song "Roses" with Jonathan and his cavalcade of Uber passengers. The result is a feel-good video that thankfully does not result in any dancing-related accidents.
On Thursday night, Jon Stewart crashed Stephen Colbert's Late Show monologue, meaning he must miss TV almost as much as TV misses him. The reason for his visit? He's supporting a vital piece of legislation that Congress has been too petty to pass. The Zadroga Act, which provides healthcare to 9/11 first responders, is up for renewal. "The media won't pay attention to anything unless you are Donald Trump," Colbert quips and convinces Stewart to Trump it up in order to get people to pay attention to his cause.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHHQ9WdFekc
While it's awfully sad that that's what it takes to get people to listen, Jonald Trump does his best impression for the heroes. Watch, and listen to The Jonald and shame your congressman by tweeting at them using the hashtag #WorstResponders.
Thursday night on The Late Late Show, Justin Bieber took over the monologue from host James Corden. Despite being a world-famous pop star, with multi-platinum records and a highly complimented penis, Bieber had one dream he had yet to achieve: hosting his own late night show. (Luckily, as a white dude, Bieber would definitely fit in on late night.) So yesterday, he snuck in and told some zingers about the 2016 candidates before being busted by Corden. His delivery isn't bad.
Emma Tapping is a UK-based blogger and mom of three. She mostly blogs about saving money and getting deals. She also runs a Facebook page call The Boss Mum. About a week ago, she posted a photo of her Christmas tree to her Instagram, and it's an avalanche of savings waiting to happen:
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Tapping received some critical comments on her post from people who think she's spoiling her kids, but then things really got out of hand. A screenshot of her photo got memed and passed around. For example, here it is on Facebook page Take The Piss, along with a damning critique:
That post alone has over 100,000 shares, but it's been shared many other places, along with lots of negativity from people who are spending the time between now and Christmas finding fault with others:
Tapping posted an update on Wednesday, trying to clarify who all the presents are for and to correct other misinformation being circulated in the media:
I know this page is going to get busier and I know I am in the papers today so I thought I would set people straight on...
A picture of Ben Affleck surfaced yesterday that revealed he has a huge tattoo of a rising phoenix on his back. The picture was taken on the set for Live By Night in Los Angeles, but the tattoo isn't a fake one for the movie. It's real ink that Affleck has forever. Perhaps it's a symbolic reminder that he must rise from the ashes after he got caught cheating with his nanny. Or he could be a huge Harry Potter nerd and wishes he was a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Or, judging from the the tattoo's bright color work, he may have gotten one of those airbrush tattoos at Six Flags, and liked it so much he decided to make it permanent:
This is the first sighting of the full tat in all its glory. Earlier this summer, there was a glimpse of the phoenix tail, which was hilarious because people thought he might have a tramp stamp:
This is not Affleck's only tattoo. He has a dolphin on his hip, much like a young stripper with dreams of one day making it big in Hollywood. He also has barbed wire on his right bicep. Along with the phoenix, it sounds like he's trying to get the least original tattoos possible. There are no confirmed reports of a tribal tattoo, but there has to be one on him somewhere.
Harrison Ford, the only man weird enough to pay Carrie Fisher's love interest in a movie, had something to say on Wednesday to presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments about Ford "standing up for America" as an actor playing an ass-kicking president in the movie Air Force One. Namely, that it's just a f*cking movie.
"It's a movie," the lifelong Democrat said while promoting Star Wars:The Force Awakens in Australia. "Donald, it was a movie. It's not like this in real life, but how would you know?"
Apparently, Donald Trump thinks Harrison Ford is awesome, which is one of the few opinions Trump has ever expressed that 100 percent of Americans agree with. "My favorite [movie president] was Harrison Ford on the plane," said Trump to the New York Times last week. "I love Harrison Ford—and not just because he rents my properties. He stood up for America."
Photos from the upcoming new Tarzanmovie were released last week, and you have to work your way up to seeing all of Alexander Skarsgård's abs, because they're overwhelming. Start with this photo of him inZoolander from 2001, playing a bean pole of a male model who would eventually get killed in a gasoline fight after some heavy juicing. He has a shirt on, but it's unlikely a guy that skinny is packing much heat:
Next level is Skarsgård playing sexual iceman Eric Northman in True Blood. this was taken circa 2013, so he must've spent the 12 years between these two photos working out in a secret Hollywood bunker:
Alexander Skarsgård has stomach-crunched himself into the next level of human evolution! He has come from the future to conquer us with hotness! Or at least to try and get us to see his new movie Tarzan, coming to a theater near you in 2016.
A new meme, "The Upgrade Challenge," is going viral as a way for people to share pictures of themselves with a sense of humor. Why wait until #TransformationTuesday or #ThrowbackThursday to share an old photo? With the Upgrade Challenge, you can get those precious likes any day of the week.
The meme follows a three-act structure for dramatic affect:
1. An old picture of yourself looking awkward, or just simply not the best.
2. A standard pic of a keyboard that has an "upgrade" button on it.
3. The upgraded version of the thing in picture #1.
The Upgrade meme is basically "Neville Longbottom-ing" for regular people. It's like dozens of mini versions of the movie Boyhood, celebrating the wonder of time.
#Upgrade is a super-meme. Initially, it started as a sort of conflation of Throwback Thursday and the #humblebrag. Users post embarrassing pictures of themselves when they were younger, and then pics of them looking mature and attractive.
Here are the best uses of this humblebrag formula:
Gosh, do you ever just wish you were insanely famous and could live a glamorous lifestyle of getting publicly humiliated for any regrettable thing you say? Well, maybe some day you can if you work hard, stay positive, and say a lot of embarrassing shit. Here are 10 ridiculous quotes that celebrities did not get away with in 2015.
The pop star, who fervently believes extraterrestrials are among us and has apparently seen a bunch, said:
This was probably eight years ago. I was in my backyard in L.A., and I looked up at the sky and [saw] three flying saucers. I looked at my friend and said, 'Are you seeing this or am I losing my mind?' He was seeing the same thing.
9. Willow and Jaden Smith explained that time doesn't exist.
In their charmingly bananas T Magazine interview, the amazingly opinionated teenagers put their philosophy into words:
WILLOW: I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.
JADEN: It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.
WILLOW: Because living.
JADEN: Right, because you have to live. There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.
WILLOW: It’s the action of it.
8. Kate Winslet criticized other women for being "vulgar" and speaking out about Hollywood's wage gap.
When Jennifer Lawrence started a conversation about how female actors are unfairly paid less than their male peers, Winslet didn't support her squad (all the female Oscar nominees are a squad, right?). Instead she commented that the whole convo was gross:
I'm having such a problem with these conversations. I understand why they are coming up but maybe it's a British thing. I don't like talking about money; it's a bit vulgar isn't it? I don't think that's a very nice conversation to have publicly at all.
I'm quite surprised by these conversations to be honest, simply because it seems quite a strange thing to be discussing out in the open like that. I am a very lucky woman and I'm quite happy with how things are ticking along.
Later, Winslet clarified, kind of, "I have never concerned myself with monetary matters. I almost feel like I can’t comment on other people’s comments, but I admire people who publicly stand up for themselves."
7. In a feminist interview to promote her feminist movie, Meryl Streep announced she's not a feminist.
Time Out London directly asked the Suffragette star if she was a feminist. She wouldn't say yes (but to be fair, a team of studio publicists probably threatened to take away a few of her Oscars if she did):
INTERVIEWER: Are you a feminist?
STREEP: I am a humanist, I am for nice easy balance.
6. Kanye overshared about his showering habits, which apparently stem from the feud between Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose.
In an interview, West commented on the public tension between his wife and his ex (first mistake) and then got TMI. Everyone involved came out looking bad.
If Kim had dated me when I wanted, there would be no Amber Rose. It's very hard for a woman to wanna be with someone that's with Amber Rose. I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim.”
On his reality show Project Greenlight, Damon alienated the devoted fans who'd always thought he was the chill one in his partnership with Ben Affleck. In a heated conversation about hiring a director, he interrupted veteran film producer Effie Brown to explain the way to make diverse movies. It is of course, to not give any decision-making power to diverse filmmakers:
When we're talking about diversity, you do it in the casting of the film, not in the casting of the show.
Damon said he was sorry, but everyone's exasperated "oof"s cannot be undone.
4. Justin Bieber's dad tweeted that he was a "proud daddy" after his son's nude photos leaked.
Bieber's dad used to be famous for having a pop star son, but now he's famous for being creepy. When nude photos of Biebs leaked, his dad, aka his father, aka a person who is his parent, tweeted about his son's dick size. To everyone's horror, he wrote:
@justinbieber what do you feed that thing. #proud daddy
3. Taylor Swift tried to make Nicki Minaj's VMAs tweets about her.
After Minaj was snubbed for a Video of the Year VMA nomination, she called out racism and double standards for women's bodies in the entertainment industry. Taylor Swift took it personally and accused Minaj of pitting women against each other.
I've done nothing but love & support you. It's unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot..
After crazy backlash and unstoppable comments from the famouspeanut gallery, Swift Twitter-apologized and the duo ended their bad blood with a viral moment—or sorry, performance—at the VMAs. But in 2015, Instagram was definitely more of a strong suit for T-Swift than Twitter.
2. Giuliana Rancic made ridiculous assumptions about Zendaya's hair on the Oscars red carpet.
Disney star Zendaya wore dreadlocks on the Oscars carpet this year in order to, in her own words, "showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough." E! Fashion Police host Rancic saw the hair and commented that the 18-year-old probably smelled like "patchouli" and "weed" (as you can hear in the Vine above). Rancic immediately publicly apologized, but Kelly Osborne considers her a liar to this very day. While this incident was unfortunate racist, it did introduce many people to Zendaya's eloquentsocial mediacallouts, which hopefully will continue into 2016.
1. Ariana Grande was caught on security footage saying she hates America.
Though she has since asked and been granted the nation's forgiveness, the most ridiculous quote of 2015 was when Ariana Grande licked a donut and said, so quietly yet provocatively:
Horror is often about taking wholesome things that are near and dear to our hearts—such as dolls, children, or Santa—and turning them into violent, destructive monsters. A good way to mess with neighbors is to apply this principle to snowmen. Here are the best disturbing snowmen from all across the Internet. Their cold, soulless button eyes are certain to violate your sense of holiday warmth.
