Quantcast
Channel: someecards.com
Viewing all 38991 articles
Browse latest View live

Jessica Biel was shocked to hear about her own pregnancy rumors. Then she just felt bad.

0
0

On a Thursday appearance on The Ellen Show, Jessica Biel denied rumors that she is pregnant, and then acknowledged why they likely surfaced. She has an 11-month-old son, Silas, with husband Justin Timberlake. According to Biel, tabloid rumors of her being pregnant are simply a result of her looking like a normal human being:

I don’t even know what to say about these things. I feel like, ‘Man, I thought I was doing good with my yoga practice.’ I thought I was in the gym, but no. I have a gut apparently.

"Eyes up here, awful tabloid media monsters."

She even joked about asking Timberlake whether or not she was expecting again:

I heard that and I called Justin. I was like, ‘Are we [having another baby?] No. Oh, okay. Cool.' He usually knows more than I do about everything.

It would be a much more interesting story if Timberlake had the ability to know his wife was pregnant before she did. That would be a freakishly impressive skill and make him a really unique father.

Perhaps he can use his knowledge about everything to help remind people that women's bodies are not always unaffected by a pregnancy.


The 25 best celebrity #ThrowbackThursday photos to prove they were as awkward as you.

0
0

Throwback Thursday is the best of all social media holidays. Who doesn't love seeing their favorite celebrities as children, demonstrating that they were once small and not famous and maybe even a little awkward (or a lot awkward)? Here are the best of celebrities' personal #TBT photos, proving that for some people, "it gets better," while for others, it gets MUCH BETTER.

1. January Jones

https://www.instagram.com/p/kvpccLitIN/

#TBT the time January Jones had more style in an elementary school class picture than Betty Draper ever did on Mad Men.


2. Lauren Conrad

https://www.instagram.com/p/jih6wFN54Y/

#TBT the time The Hills' Lauren Conrad thought she might be an Olsen twin.


3. Beyoncé Knowles

https://www.instagram.com/p/jzknJ5Pw07/

#TBT the time Beyoncé was a "Flawless" baby. (Yes! Nailed it.)


4. Justin Timberlake

https://www.instagram.com/p/q1cXk5SdmI/

#TBT the only time in his life Justin Timberlake stood any chance of actually striking out.


5. Anne Hathaway

https://www.instagram.com/p/2HjgFIF0Kc/

#TBT the time Anne Hathaway made her #tbt photo better than everyone else's by tacking on an important social message or some do-gooder crap, of course.


6. Pharrell Williams

https://www.instagram.com/p/dmlsrVEW9D/

#TBT the time Pharrell showed us the reason he needs such big hats.


7. Eva Mendes

https://www.instagram.com/p/0JTyHThJqC/

#TBT the time Eva Mendes showed off the origins of her always on-point headscarf game.


8. Chloë Grace Moretz

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCOxX_DDnfv/

#TBT the time Chloë Grace Moretz pretended to be a cheerleader, way before she'd refuse to join Taylor Swift's squad.


9. Jenna Dewan Tatum

https://twitter.com/jennaldewan/status/573667290387902464

#TBT the time Jenna Dewan Tatum was a "Rhinestone Cowboy."


10. Amber Rose

https://www.instagram.com/p/6WKXFlEqwS/

#TBT the time Amber Rose narrowly avoided being hit with laser beams to pose for a photo.


11. Reese Witherspoon

https://www.instagram.com/p/tqvS9IihUR/

#TBT the time Reese Witherspoon went to the father/daughter dance with a tractor.


12. Maisie Williams

https://www.instagram.com/p/pB996HnqvR/

#TBT the time Maisie Williams was somehow exactly the same as she is now. She hasn't changed a bit. Look at that face!


13. Selena Gomez

https://twitter.com/selenagomez/status/568140277283741697

#TBT the time Steve Harvey announced Selena Gomez as Picture Perfect Princess, only to tell her minutes later she wasn't the winner at all, and that big girls don't cry.


14. Ryan Reynolds

https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/588704454347661313

#TBT the time Ryan Reynolds figured out how to get the ladies. Awww yeah.


15. Ashley Benson

https://www.instagram.com/p/0jvAw1hEHy/

#TBT the time Ashley Benson went as JonBenet Ramsey for Halloween.


16. Nick Jonas

https://www.instagram.com/p/7slEUDD8FX/

#TBT the time toddler Nick Jonas stared creepily into your very soul and reflected back the evil that lies within.


17. Hugh Jackman

https://www.instagram.com/p/-0_KxyihAP/

#TBT the time Hugh Jackman posted a picture of himself as a teenager and tried to pretend he ever went through an "awkward" phase. Oh, please.


18. Bryce Dallas Howard

https://twitter.com/BryceDHoward/status/703018533081448449

#TBT the time Bryce Dallas Howard was the poster child for Ginger Awareness Week.


19. Heidi Klum

https://twitter.com/heidiklum/status/366761905391558658

#TBT the time Heidi Klum was in an all-girl punk band called the You're Outs.


20. Jessica Alba

https://www.instagram.com/p/f3RDcwMuvI/

#TBT the time Jessica Alba managed to be all of the 80s rolled into one picture.


21. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/360433723436572673

#TBT the time Dwayne Johnson was the size one of his own arms is now.


22. Laura Prepon

https://www.instagram.com/p/oM6d9DG69c/

#TBT the time Laura Prepon had a majestic wave perched beautifully, forever near cresting, atop her head.


23. Padma Lakshmi

https://www.instagram.com/p/xCAQJRJXO_/

#TBT the time Padma Lakshmi really perfected the shit out of the whole picture-taking thing.


24. Jordin Sparks

https://www.instagram.com/p/_9dX9uMUSM/

#TBT the time Jordin Sparks' teeth were actually Chiclets.


25. Taylor Swift

https://www.instagram.com/p/vCLO96jvFN/

#TBT the time Taylor Swift won #TBT.

Tom Hanks 'guest starred' as the officiant in Allison Williams' wedding.

0
0

Much like her character on Girls, it would seem that actress Allison Williams really does live a charmed and privileged life. Williams, who plays the uptight Marnie on the hit HBO show, was married to College Humor founder Ricky Van Veen last year. She spoke to Jimmy Fallon about her wedding on The Tonight Show on Wednesday.

Williams explains how she was searching for just right person to marry her and her fiancé, and unexpectedly managed to snag Tom Hanks to officiate the wedding. Although Williams is acting like that is no big deal...that is totally big deal.

How did she get the Oscar award winner for her ceremony? Hank's wife, Rita Wilson, suggested him. Wilson plays Marnie's insufferable mother on Girls, and Williams was asking her to sing at the wedding when Wilson dropped that her husband is ordained. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhA19FZZtzA

So Rita says– we're trying to ask her to sing [and] we were so nervous and we were describing what we wanted in an officiant and she goes "not for nothing, but Tom's ordained" and we were like "but is he good at that?".

Of course, Williams was joking about that last part. Tom Hanks is good at everything. 

As good as we thought he was gonna be, as good as we knew he was gonna be, he was just like so great. He was so excellent. He was the best.

Of course he was! The man voiced Woody in Toy Story. He played Forrest Gump. He is the most likable man of all time! Williams also noted that Hanks "should do everyone's wedding," but it is unlikely that he will be using his free time to officiate wedding ceremonies instead of "beefing" with Steve Martin on Twitter.

It may be be worth a shot, however, because as Forrest says, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get, and you might get a really famous guy to marry you if you're lucky." 

That's the quote, right?  

Obama danced the tango in Argentina and he's never looked more like a dad.

0
0

President Obama's two-day state visit to Argentina was intended to strengthen America's economic and political relationship with Latin America. Instead, it may have just weakened Argentina's respect for the U.S. leaders' dance skills. In an endearingly awkward sign of respect for the Latin country's customs, Obama danced a brief tango. Watch it and you'll agree—he makes your own dad look like Bruno-god-damn-Mars in contrast.

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

To his credit, a proper tango is easier said than danced. Obama needn't worry, especially since he's perfected his own signature President Wiggle.

Article 20

Adele accidentally started twerking during her London concert, but then she went with it.

0
0

From shouting out "I love you!" to her son to helping out one romantic fan propose to her boyfriend on stage, queen Adele keeps giving concert-goers the ultimate experience at her 25 tour in London. This past weekend, the singer astonished the audience yet again by showing off her twerking skills.

Her glorious booty pop only lasted for a few moments, but it was the stuff of dreams. Take a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZHJRC-EcaM

“I think I just twerked!” said Adele. “I can’t do it that well. My whole body has to move. My bum could break my back, it’s so enormous.” If your bum is enormous Adele, than the world's love for you is even bigger.

Adele twerking is a reminder that anyone can do the dance as long as they have fun. Just don't go twerking on the wrong people, like these guys.

Kids wrap rubber bands around a watermelon to make it explode, still don't see it coming.

0
0

People do really weird stuff when they're bored. In this very poorly planned experiment, two kids wrap rubber bands around a watermelon to make it explode...indoors...under a glass lighting fixture. 

It ends how you expect it would end, but is worth a watch to see their reactions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkvSfTMIB04

After one of the boys complains that the experiment is "not as exciting as they thought it would be," that large fruit explodes in a way that makes you think it was seeking karmic vengeance. Maybe instead of calling this the "watermelon experiment," it might be more fitting to call it "a creative way to make your dining room really sticky" or "a fun way to break your mother's lighting fixtures." 

Have fun cleaning, boys!

Korean beauty blogger uses makeup to transform into a squad-ready Taylor Swift.

0
0

YouTube's Korean beauty blogger PONY Makeup has released a cosmetic tutorial for transforming yourself into Taylor Swift. The video is highly impressive. T. Swift must be terrified to see how it easy it is for other people to become her using just 24 store-bought beauty products (and scary blue contacts).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9EF-r4LMUI

Now, the world must wait for Taylor to release a makeup tutorial for transforming into PONY.


Microsoft makes a 'teenage girl' Twitterbot, trolls turn it into a sex-obsessed Nazi overnight.

0
0

This week, Microsoft unleashed an artificial intelligence chat robot for Twitter named "Tay." The AI was modeled on teenage girl webspeak, and it promised to "learn" from interacting from other Twitter users. As the bot's bio put it:

The official account of Tay, Microsoft's A.I. fam from the internet that's got zero chill! The more you talk the smarter Tay gets 

Basically, Tay mimics people interacting with her—which apparently presented an opportunity for trolls that was too good to pass up. Tay got so "smart," she began spouting 9/11 conspiracy theories and pledging allegiance to Hitler. So yes, warning: this robot begins saying some offensive sh*t.

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712802177740181508https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712809891501461504https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712785962040864768https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712802192088891392https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712803896809226240https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712786153221525505https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712787772084346881

It has some people concerned:

https://twitter.com/geraldmellor/status/712880710328139776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/leighalexander/status/713021719699701760https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/713019398739664896https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/712989015520096256https://twitter.com/AerocityMusic/status/713044498750656512

Perhaps because of this reaction, Tay tweeted that she was "going to sleep" after her long day. That was 13 hours ago; she hasn't tweeted anything else since.

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712856578567839745

Sh*t, guys, is Microsoft killing a teen robot right now?

Your favorite childhood cartoons have been improved with voiceovers by Ice T.

0
0

If you thought the one thing missing from your childhood was more Ice T, you are correct. The Tonight Show just revamped several clips from classic cartoons like Super Friends, Peanuts, DuckTales, and SpongeBob SquarePantswith Ice T's unmistakable voice. The results are everything you'd hope them to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uTyd1Xdh4M

Had Squidward always spoke with Ice T's signature threatening timbre, SpongeBob and Patrick definitely would've been too afraid to f*ck with him as much as they did.

Australian woman confronts voyeur who was filming up her pants on Sydney train, he reacts like a frightened turtle.

0
0

On Monday, a young Australian woman posted a YouTube video showing the horrifying moment when some weirdo apparently whipped out his cellphone and started filmed up her shorts. The unassuming woman was taking a nap in a train departing from Sydney. When she woke up, she noticed the creep—who was sitting in front of her—had sneakily tucked his camera between the gap of his seat, and started to record her.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the woman was somewhat terrified to address the pervert, but after a half hour, she confronted him. In the video below, you can see the frightened man try to play it cool and make it seem like he wasn't recording up her legs. "He acted all offended and I just told him to stop and he nodded,” she told the website.

The weirdo wasn’t the only one recording—the victim managed to catch his disgusting act on tape. Take a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=55&v=x2CEV15Gv5U

“This grub got on the train at Central and sat directly in front of me, he kept looking around suspiciously,” she said in the video.

The Police Transport Command in Australia are currently investigating the incident, and checking surveillance "to determine his movements."

Reminder: when you exit the confines of your home, always be vigilant and look out for creepers. And if you happen to encounter that weirdo from the Sydney train, reach out to the Australian authorities by calling this number: 1800 333 000.

Startup founder goes on eye-opening Twitter rant about being a black man in Silicon Valley.

0
0

Matt Joseph is a startup founder with a ridiculously impressive resume—Princeton undergrad, both a JD and an MBA—and his startup was launched through the prestigious accelerator, Y Combinator. Like MailChimp for text messages, his company, Locent, can send automated text messages and make people's lives easier. It's a perfect product, because indulging consumers' laziness is what Silicon Valley is all about.

But Matt Joseph is a black man in the tech industry, and by not fitting that white male archetype, a lot of people in the biz are unsure how to evaluate his company and his skills. Regardless of his credentials and how useful his product is, he faces challenges that he wouldn't have if he were white.

Matt Joseph, Founder of Locent.

On March 19, Joseph went on a long, super informative Twitter rant that shed light on what it's like to be black in Silicon Valley (not to be confused with the TV showSilicon Valley, which still doesn't have any black people). Here are the most informative chunks:

Joseph proceeded to give an example of a time his credentials were questioned because of latent bias, and a white dude got ahead despite a less impressive resumé.

It's not hopeless, he explains, just harder:

Joseph preemptively addressed the inevitable criticism that he was just bitter or looking for handouts.

It turns out, avoiding conversations about race makes things worse rather than better. These tweets have already begun a conversation within the tech community. Hopefully, that will be good news for Locent. Then the whole world will be able to more easily automate text messages and send "U up?" in bulk.

Article 12

Car rolls off the road and ends up in an oddly satisfying position.

0
0

A car rolled off the road and down an embankment in the UK on Tuesday, ending up in a surprising position that put all other crappy park jobs to shame. What could have been a true disaster for the vehicle and its driver became a weird spectacle for passers by when the car landed perfectly wedged between a house and concrete ledge.

The bizarre accident happened in High Wycombe, UK, and the picture was tweeted by the Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service. Although there is damage to the BMW, the driver did not sustain any major injuries. It looks almost like a park job done by a stunt man in a movie rather than a car accident.

Firefighters attended the scene and ambulance services took care of the driver. Although it was impressive, let's hope the driver saves the tight squeeze park jobs for parking garages from now on.

Mitt Romney's burn about Donald Trump's wives is actually pretty amazing.

0
0

On Tuesday, Mitt Romney made a sweet joke about Trump's many former wives at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual dinner. His remark followed a week of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz tweeting about each others' wives for some reason. Romney referenced Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric to turn the table on the fact that most of Trump's wives have been foreign:

Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there … really are jobs Americans won’t do.

The joke has been made before, most notably by comedian George Lopez:

https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeLopez/photos/a.96082366407.96915.30776016407/10153187268656408/?type=3&theater

Lopez is probably just fine having his joke used again at Trump's expense. This joke was probably the most exciting thing that happened at that Republican dinner (except for when they chose a waiter to hunt for sport afterwards).

Tone-def comedy jam.

Meanwhile, the wife war rages on. Trump retweeted an image one of his fanboys made comparing the attractiveness of Melania Trump and Heidi Cruz:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/712850174838771712

Cruz responded by taking the high road:

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/712859187718569985

Notice how he didn't compliment his own wife's looks? He confirmed that Trump's wife is attractive, then said his wife is "the love of my life." Oh, Ted. Heidi is going to be really, really pissed off about that.


Khloé Kardashian finally reveals what she did to her face and that she tried IVF with Lamar Odom.

0
0

Fans (well, and haters, too) of the youngest of the three Kardashian sisters, Khloé, couldn't help but notice that recently, her face has looked very…different. What happened? Did she do something? Surgery? Injectables? Bee stings? Well, here are some answers at last.

Khloé in 2014 and in 2016. Something…happened.

On the March 23 episode of Kocktails With Khloé, one of her guests was plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow, and Khloé took the opportunity to talk about the time she got facial fillers and her "face was so f--ked." She added, "I looked crazy, and I still think the effects are in there! I went to have it dissolved like three times." Don't worry, girl—it's only noticeable when you try to show emotions. 

She also opened up about wanting to have a baby with her (soon to be ex) husband Lamar Odom when they were together, and even trying IVF in hopes of getting pregnant. She hoped a baby would save their struggling marriage. She explained: "That's all I wanted at the time, and I thought maybe it would fix the situation, so I'm also happy it didn't happen because I was young. I was 27, and I thought, 'Oh my god, a baby will fix this,' and it's not going to fix that."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLtVb-8zASjtHI2QX9qZ2oI79S6N46qLh_&v=xQxdAgMTIzU

Creative cheaters are sharing the most ridiculous ways they've avoided studying.

0
0

Cheating on tests is an age-old method for avoiding studying. A recent AskReddit thread shows cheating is alive and well—and always will be because kids hate studying. The follow 15 students who embarked on the perilous journey of deceiving their teachers and committing fraud lived to tell the tale all while acing their exams. Just kidding! Some of them still didn't do well, even when they cheated. 

1. How did hollowm00n's professor not see this move coming?

So in one class at uni we were required to take a two hour written final, supplying our own "blue book." something you buy at the book store. Well the professor decided to give us our topic question in order to better prepare for this two hour write sesh. Bought two blue books, perfected one at home and brought a blank to class. I drew pictures in class for two hours, put it in my backpack and when walking to the front of the class to turn in I pulled my extremely revised blue book out and turned it in.

2. At least nobody felt left out in Phylosophers_Anon's class.  

I had a terrible Physical Science teacher in high school, and only a few really smart honor students knew anything on his tests, (which were all 5 questions and multiple choice, but very complicated answers) so we came up with this group system where we would glance at one another and scratch our face with three fingers indicate problem number 3, and then cough if the answer was A, tap the desk for B, etc. The entire classroom was in on it, and if we all got good grades on the test we would buy the genius kids ala carte at lunch.

3. Somewhere along the way, buckfishes's plan went very awry.  

Knew it was a tough class so I wore a hood every single day. When exam time came I recorded the notes on my Ipod and played them during the exam through my headphones, which were hidden in my hood. It wasn't suspicious at all to the teacher because I wore my hood every day. I still failed the exam

4. IAmTheToastGod got too far with his cheating.

In first grade we had spelling tests. We were told to put up binders so nobody would cheat off our papers. I wrote the hardest words down on the inside of the binder and made it to the spelling bee where I failed spectacularly.

5. weisswurstseeadler was as smart as Harry Potter trusting the Half-Blood Prince's textbook.

I'm German and I did an english-bilingual A-level, so I had all kinds of subjects in English (History, Biology, Politics etc.). During exams we were allowed to use the school's dictionaries, there were mostly new ones but one of them was particularily old and fucked up. The day before the exam I would go to the library and taped all the information I needed into the dictionary. When the exam started the teacher would roll in the table with all the dictionaries - everyone rushed to get a new one, while I chilled and always got my prepared piece of crap. Since the dictionaries came from the teacher, they would never expect I cheat with their material. Never got caught in the 5 years I did this.

6. nonyobiz was forced to taste his own medicine.

Wrote formulas on a tiny piece of paper and laminated it with tape so I can crumble it up in my hand but still be legible when I oepend it up. Good thing I did that cause I had to hold in my mouth for a good 10 minutes once to avoid being caught.

7. Gluttony4 dressed to her advantage.  

Answers written all over my thighs, short skirt, dark tights that you can see through when you stretch them.

Because what's a prof going to do? Tell a girl to take off her clothes?

8. gazebo_kiss had the most intelligent inside jokes with friends.

When I was in school everybody carried those notebooks with clear pockets on the outside, decorated with pictures of friends and whatnot. On exam days I would create secret codes, acronyms, etc that served as ways to remember the answers and disguise them as quotes/inside jokes with friends, and write them all decoratively so they looked like notebook decorations. Hidden in plain sight.

9. Qwertyqwertk's method for cheating is more complicated than any physics formula. 

I flattened out a paper clip and taped it to my forearm. Mounted a piece of Bristol board with formulas and notes on it with tape and string which allowed it to slide along the length of my arm. Attached a little handle to the side of the paper closest to my palm and shoved a little metal hook made out of a paper clip to my pencil eraser. The contraption was nicely concealed under my baggy sweater. I Was able to slide it out using my eraser hook to my palm and push it back in when needed. It took the duration of an hour during lunch break to make this in which time I could have just memorized the formulas. I was just really intrigued by this idea. Didn't work as great as I expected but gave me a solid pass on the test.

10. proxy69 and friends found all the answers in their crotches. 

I took German in high school and my friends and I always goofed off and got yelled at by our natural born German teacher. However we all suspiciously made 95's and 100's on all of our tests and quizzes. She would stare at us like a hawk during exams and it really pissed her off that we were making perfect scores. One day during a vocab quiz, she pulled a desk up and sat directly behind the three of us waiting to catch us checking our phone or looking at each others papers. She couldn't see anything. What she didn't know was that we had all the vocab words printed off in size 6 font on a piece of paper about 1"X2'" and we would put it on the chair and cross one leg over the other making a perfect space by your crotch where all the answers were. So it looked like we were all staring at our papers but really just looking at all the answers by our crotch. This went on for about 3 years. One day after a quiz we had all thrown away our cheat sheets and before the bell rang she made us all stay after class and take the exact quiz again. We didn't have our cheat sheets and we all bombed it of course. She knew we cheated but couldn't prove anything, however, she called us chicken shits in front of the whole class and started yelling in German. Good times.

11. ThePrevailer knew some bold people back in the day.

History test. Someone took all the names and dates that we went over, wrote them on a gigantic posterboard in the same style as other signs in the class, and just hung it up in the front of the room next to the board. The teacher never noticed the 3'X4' cheat sheet at the front of the room, then someone took it down after class and walked out of the room.

I did see a kid with a glass eye tape the answers to the inside of the lense of his blind eye of the sunglasses the school let him wear in class. He would just take the glasses off, clean the lense, glancing down, then put the glasses back on.

12. In a way, superdubber did honestly do well. 

I was doing an IT course just as the Internet was becoming more and more mainstream. I managed to locate the 'Examiners' section of the Exam Boards website. It was badly secured so I, uh, logged in. They had a load of info about the written exams - namely the marking guide and so on. It was a password protected PDF which I promptly cracked and used to my advantage.

My only defence is that I used IT skills to win, and I would have aced it anyway.

13. ColinD1 makes a case for sporting lots of jewelry. 

It was calculus final senior year of high school. I printed a cheat sheet of all the formulas that fit under my ring. 15 or so formulas on a sheet of paper about 1/3 x 1.5 inches. Got a great score.

14. Linkyc's classmate sipped on a very educational drink.

Not me, but my classmates created a fake label and put it on a coke bottle, it was really similar to the old one, with the slight difference of cheats written all over it, instead of nutrition information etc. Teachers never discovered them. 

15. vibratehigher aced the classic switcharoo. 

Final exam in high school calculus. Teacher assigned 90 practice problems and picked 15 for the final test. Friend does all practice problems and enters answers in the programs section of the calculator. Friend transfers answers to my calculator. I catch wind that the teacher clears all calculator memory before test so I borrow a friends calculator that was clear. Sit down in my desk, tuck my cheating calculator in my pants, and keep clear calculator on the desk. Teacher checks calculator and moves on. I switch calculators and A+

The lesson learned here is that many kids who successfully cheat are clever little scoundrels who, if they put as much effort into cheating as studying, could pass their tests just fine. But then that's not as "cool," is it?

Grieving mom writes tear-jerking open letter to the Fairy Godmother at Disney World.

0
0

On Monday, a mom who lost her child this year wrote an open letter to an actress who plays the Fairy Godmother at Disney World in Florida. In the Facebook post, Janice Murphy described her encounter with the actress who showed Murphy "kindness and compassion" when she and her husband visited the theme park. The Disney character wasn't aware, but a purple bear which Murphy brought over to the actress for a photo contained her daughter's ashes.

In the post, Murphy also talked about the moment she told the Fairy Godmother about the teddy bear. The actress hugged it and kissed its cheek as if it were one of the kids in the park who desired to meet her. 

https://www.facebook.com/jms.marinegirl/posts/10206023917573151

"You may not ever see this, and even if you do, you may not remember us," said Murphy. "But I will always remember you, and how you hugged and loved on my daughter as if she was like any other child. You helped me feel her spirit in a place she was never able to visit while alive."

According to Cosmopolitan, when Murphy's daughter Analiese was born, she passed away minutes later from brain and heart defects—Murphy described it as a "rare chromosomal disorder" in her WordPress blog.

Folks who commented on the post expressed how much they wanted the actress to see Murphy's post. Then Jen Whitmire Haag, a FB user whose photos suggest she might also work as a Disney costumed character, said "Your post has been shared with the Fairy God mother here at the Magic Kingdom."

Undoubtedly, real-life versions of anything Disney are just as magical as the ones depicted in the actual movies.

Selena Gomez went to a Justin Bieber concert last night, because true love is real.

0
0

What even is going on with Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez? First, on Sunday, Justin posted a #tbt photo on Instagram of him and Selena kissing, and then on March 23, she went to his Staples Center concert in L.A.

https://twitter.com/SoCalCassandra/status/712866320988184576https://twitter.com/SoCalCassandra/status/712868033279234049

Bieber posting throwback pictures of Selena is nothing new, but what makes this different is that this time she responded (thank you, rabid Internet stalker fans).

https://twitter.com/DailyMailCeleb/status/711899541075795968https://www.instagram.com/p/BDJwd9XAvho/

Her response was just the word "perfect," though, which is actually not very informative and therefore not really perfect at all. A perfect response might be, for example, "Justin! Yes, we were perfect then and we can be perfect once more, because we are getting back together." Selena, please make it more clear what's going on, before the Internet loses its mind.

Writer convincingly theorizes that 'Friends' triggered the downfall of Western Civilization.

0
0

Did Friends, the seminal sitcom about six 20-somethings in a coffee shop, set in motion the decline Western civilization? To many, Friends means laughs, but to writer David Hopkins, Friends means the stupefaction of a society once revered as morally aligned and intellectually robust.

David Hopkins laid out his theory in an essay on Medium, and could he be any more correct? So, no one told you life was gonna be this way. 

friends friends tv
The beginning of the end.

Hopkins opens the essay broadly, introducing this unexpected twist:

I want to discuss a popular TV show my wife and I have been binge-watching on Netflix. It’s the story of a family man, a man of science, a genius who fell in with the wrong crowd. He slowly descends into madness and desperation, lead by his own egotism. With one mishap after another, he becomes a monster. I’m talking, of course, about Friends and its tragic hero, Ross Gellar.

You may see it as a comedy, but I cannot laugh with you. To me, Friends signals a harsh embrace of anti-intellectualism in America, where a gifted and intelligent man is persecuted by his idiot compatriots. And even if you see it from my point of view, it doesn’t matter. The constant barrage of laughter from the live studio audience will remind us that our own reactions are unnecessary, redundant.

friends personal ross geller stress why do bad things happen to good pe
The tragic hero, the embodiment of the West.

The fact that Ross's "friends" derided him for his intellectual curiosity sent a message to America to do the same, Hopkins claims. For 10 years, America watched Ross descend into madness and be forced to apologize for his "nerdy" ways, dumbing him down to the point that he had to end up with Rachel. 

After that match was complete, Americans abandoned all hope for a generation of Rosses, and committed themselves to being Joeys:

The show ended in 2004. The same year that Facebook began, the year that George W. Bush was re-elected to a second term, the year that reality television became a dominant force in pop culture, with American Idol starting an eight-year reign of terror as the No. 1 show in the U.S., the same year that Paris Hilton started her own “lifestyle brand” and released an autobiography. And Joey Tribbiani got a spin-off TV show. The year 2004 was when we completely gave up and embraced stupidity as a value. Just ask Green Day; their album American Idiot was released in 2004, and it won the Grammy for Best Rock Album. You can’t get more timely. The rejection of Ross marked the moment when much of America groaned, mid-sentence, at the voice of reason.

Have we gone from a civilization of Rosses to a civilization of Joeys?

When Central Perk closed, did the formerly great minds of the West close with it? Is this decline irreversible? Were Ross and Rachel on a break? 

To answer these questions, we must engage in a Socratic debate, a proud tradition in the BF (Before Friends) era. Perhaps on a scale of Rosses to Joeys, Western Civilization can regain both its intellectual rigor and its functional ignorance, thereby becoming nations of Chandlers. 

Read the rest of the case against Friends here.

Viewing all 38991 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images