Actress, activist, and beatboxer Emma Watson turned 26 on April 15. The public has watched Watson grow from an adorable little girl to extremely beautiful woman—and the transformation was documented on screen. To celebrate her aging another year, here's a look at Watson's profile and how it has changed with the little thing called time.
Continue to celebrate the great Ms. Watson with this video of Hermione's greatest hits:
Hillary Clinton is campaigning at full speed for the New York Primary on April 19, so she stopped by a senior center in East Harlem to show that she can chill with the old men as well as Bernie can. Hillary stopped for a game of dominoes with her new amigos, and she got super into it, shimmying with anticipation and celebrating the result.
It's an adorably human moment that reminds you that she is just an average lady, embarrassing her children and grandchildren. Plus, that shimmy she shows off is a great addition to her already large repertoire of dance moves:
Just like drinking too many beers, if you watch these peculiar clips too many times in a row, bad ideas can start to seem good. But please, no matter how impressive it seems like it is to drink a beer using only your knees, do not try it—you will look definitively uncool, as these videos demonstrate.
Grandbro proceeds to tip the beer into his mouth with his knees. It is not a craze sweeping the nation.
Know what's cool? Safety is cool. Play safe out there guys.
Don't you know that cool means being chill? Chill out BROS.
Notable is how NJ.com reported on the incident:
Hogan's Heroes aside, there's nothing remotely humorous about the systematic Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews.
Never miss an opportunity to plug Hogan's Heroes.
Warning: watching one more video of a guy drinking booze out of a shoe will result in maybe trying it later tonight.
Is waste cool? It's not. There are some kids who don't even have one beer, let alone enough beer to toss 400 pitchers on the ground in some sort of German masculinity ritual. Get it together, Germany.
And you suck for it.
Great.
Potato chips give us much. They fulfill our needs for both crunchy foods and salty foods. They delight party guests. They sometimes look like things they shouldn't look like. Oh, and they can also locate cancer in its early, treatable stages.
Kristine Moore of Marysville, Washington, told KLTV News that in February she was eating some Ruffles in her bagged lunch, something she's done nearly every day for the past 20 years. But despite her loyalty, one of those Ruffles stabbed her hard in the throat. It hurt all day, and when her husband took a look, it was his amateur medical opinion that her tonsils looked swollen and had "some stuff" on them. A visit to urgent care led to a negative test for strep throat, but the doctor ordered a biopsy. The result: Moore had squamous cell carcinoma—cancer—on her left tonsil.
Moore's doctors say that if the chip hadn't jabbed her throat, she probably wouldn't have realized she had cancer for at least another year, at which point treatment would have been considerably more painful and difficult. As a result of her diagnosis—and the chip, really—Moore has also quit smoking. She's still eating Ruffles, though, on account of how Frito-Lay sent her coupons for two free bags. Two!
It sounds like the plot of a bad porno—a porn star and an accountant sit down together on a couch to talk to about what kinky stuff she can write off on her taxes. This video, made by Elite Daily, may not escalate into a full-on sex scene, but it does have a good amount of trashiness and cringiness. Porn star Jayden Jaymes and an accountant (whose name is never mentioned in the video) sat down together so Jaymes coud ask the important questions like "Are hand jobs tax deductible?" and "Is a cum-shot a transaction?" Yeah. She went there.
The accountant couldn't look more uncomfortable as he seems to be sitting as far away from Jaymes as humanly possible. Hopefully your tax day will go a little smoother than this conversation did.
Redditor mwjstone14 posted a photo of his great-grandfather, who just by bizarre coincidence is the identical, temporally misplaced twin of Johnny Depp. There have been other ancestral doppelgangers before, but this is by far the most convincing. In fact, you may not be entirely convinced that this is not a picture of a time-traveling Johnny Depp.
Here are Johnny Depp and this man side-by-side:
As Redditor Etcee pointed out, this man could have been the star of 1921 Jump Street.
Alexandra Judd, a waitress in Charlotte, North Carolina, recently experienced the phenomenon of "homophobic jerks not tipping" first-hand. According to AL.com, Judd was stiffed on her tip by a group of women who thought leaving a hateful Bible verse and saying "Praying for you!" would be a more generous payment than legal U.S. tender. Judd took to Facebook to hit back at them:
Leviticus 20:13 reads:
If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Judd told WBTV:
I never expected a hateful gesture like this. I've had a guest leave me a pamphlet to their church as a tip one time, but I didn't feel as if they were being hateful towards me. The ladies that came in were very rude, and would hardly talk to me - but I never expected this.
WBTV says Judd joined activists' fight for gay equality once she moved to North Carolina from Alabama, and she recently participated in a rally against House Bill 2, a controversial piece of anti-LGBT legislation that North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has signed into law. Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, PayPal, and porn giant XHamster refuse to do business in North Carolina until the law is repealed.
Basically: Get your shit together, North Carolina.
↵You have to be a bit of a nerd to compete on Jeopardy!, but contestant Margaret Miles is a bona fide bookworm. The bespectacled, soft-spoken librarian from North Carolina made a huge impression on Jeopardy!on Thursday, and not because of her awesome knowledge of random trivia—but because she is weirdly adorable. Check out the answer she gives when host Alex Trebek asks what she likes to do for fun.
Hold on. Knitting and petting cats? Maybe Miles is just delivering some dry, British-level sarcasm. When her cliché-sounding hobbies were questioned, someone who knows Miles personally came to her defense on Facebook.
Spoiler alert: she crushed her competition. She won the episode and not only left with $40k, but also a bunch of new fans.
Margaret will be back on Jeopardy! to defend her title. Think of all the yarn you can buy with the prize money, Margaret!
In the weirdest, best new meme to come out in recent days, Japanese parents are posting pictures of their babies' chubby arms next to pull-apart bread to show how similar they are. It proves that parents mocking their children is an activity beloved worldwide.
It's a little too cute.
Don't you just want to eat them all? Um, the bread, that is. Don't eat babies.
Sally Nixon is an Arkansas-based illustrator who just finished up a project where she drew at least one picture a day. Most of the moments she chose to draw came from ordinary parts of her life. "When you take on a project like that, coming up with subject matter everyday can be difficult," she told Mashable. "My own daily routine became a great source of inspiration." You'll recognize many of these moments from your own life—unless your life is, like, wildly glamorous. In which case, what are you doing on Someecards, Rihanna?
Imgur user coolmcdude has made a startling revelation about Captain America himself, Matt Salinger Chris Evans. Apparently, Evans has a strange and unsettling habit of clutching his own perfectly-formed left pectoral muscle every time some funny joke makes him roll with laughter during a press event.
If you find this phenomenon too hard to believe, coolmcdude provided 11 gifs to prove the point. The evidence is incontrovertible.
Chris Evans laughing and touching his left pecWhat does this mean? Is it just a quirk? After all, Evans is adorably quirky in addition to being an Adonis.
Or is the explanation more sinister? Is he actually an android created by the robot uprising to lull humans into submission with physical beauty? Is this an artifact of the algorithm used to simulate his biological mannerisms?
Whatever the answer may be, it's unlikely to become clear any time soon. So don't let it affect your enjoyment of Captain America: Civil War, coming soon to a theater near you.
Sometimes, due to "creative differences" (Hollywood speak for being an asshole) or for other varied reasons, actors are no longer able to continue portraying a character that they originated. TV and film producers are then forced to re-cast their characters and hope that no one will notice. People do. Every time. Here are 10 such re-cast characters that made viewers go, "Who the hell is that person supposed to be?"
Kids—they grow up so fast! When the world first met Modern Family's Lily in 2009, she was a little baby and remained so for two seasons. Then she became a witty four-year-old thanks to some growth hormones, or a change in casting from twins Jaden and Ella Hiller to Aubrey Anderson-Emmons.
Katie Holmes—at the time regaining fame for her relationship with a very well-known actor—portrayed Rachel Dawes alongside Christian Bale in 2005's Batman Begins. Then, whether because of salary negotiations or Holmes's deep desire to star in Mad Money with Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah, Maggie Gyllenhall ended up stepping in as Rachel for The Dark Knight. (Salary negotiations makes more sense.)
For three years, Janet Hubert introduced Will Smith to the streets of Bel-Air as his Aunt Viv. On-screen, they were a loving family. Off-screen, they did not get along. Come season four, Hubert was out and Daphne Reid was the woman wearing Viv's blouses.
After five seasons of watching Dick York play the slightly annoying husband of Samantha in Bewitched, viewers were suddenly seeing another Dick by the name of Dick Sargent. York left the role of Darrin Stephens due to a back problem and a related habit for painkillers. Viewers did not appreciate this other Dick, and the show's ratings dropped significantly.
In season 3 of Game of Thrones, Daario Narahis was a hot blonde guy portrayed by Ed Skrein. In the following season's 2014 premiere, Daario Narahis appeared as a hot brunette guy known in real-life as Michiel Huisman. While it was generally understood that Skrein left the show for the Transporter reboot, he later told Entertainment Weekly that "politics led to [him and the show's creative team] parting ways." Fans were upset at the time, then came to realize Huisman and his naked butt can handle the role just fine.
First Lecy Goranson played Becky on Roseanne. Then Sarah Chalke did. Then Goranson and Chalke did. This scenario came about after Goranson left the show to go to college in 1992. Chalke signed on, but when Goranson became available again for season eight, they tag-teamed as Becky. Then for the final season, viewers had only one Becky to deal with as Goranson left the show for good.
In the first two Harry Potter movies, Professor Dumbledore was a kindly, wizened man. Then he got cranky. That's because the original Dumbledore, Richard Harris, passed away following the filming of 2002's The Chamber of Secrets. Michael Gambon took over the role for the next six films and made the old wizard a bit less friendly.
After appearing as Laurie Forman for five seasons starting in 1998, Lisa Robin Kelly's face quietly transformed into Christina Moore's. Sadly, Kelly had some serious substance abuse issues and in 2013—10 years after leaving That '70s Show–Kelly died at age 43.
For the 2010 sequel to the movie that gave Robert Downey Jr. back his popularity and then some, Don Cheadle replaced Terence Howard as James Rhodes. Howard freely admitted he wasn't up for playing Stark's sidekick after the studio downgraded his $8 million salary to $1 million so as to give RDJ more cash. Looks like Cheadle had no probably with taking a smaller piece of a very big pie—he's still playing War Machine in those blockbuster Marvel movies.
Little Kaitlin Cooper went from being a bratty child portrayed by Shailene Woodley in season 1 (which debuted in 2003) to Willa Holland's obnoxious 14-year-old in season 3. When it was time for Kaitlin to return from boarding school, Woodley actually auditioned another time to play Marissa's little sister. Woodley didn't make the cut, but she's been doing OK in the young adult market without the role.
By now, you of course know that Paul Rudd has dabbled in some dark magics, because he never ages. But did you also know he yells at children? (#paulruddfacts) OK, so the yelling is benevolent; when a young fan kept yelling his name at the Captain America: Civil War premiere, Instagram user dreamerdaz captured Rudd yelling right back:
People of the Internet were delighted, although the type of positive reaction from commenters varies a bit:
If you're reading this, kid who was yelling at Paul Rudd: don't fall for him. He'll stay the same age as you grow older and die, and then he'll marry the next child to yell at his boyish face at a movie premiere. It's just your typical recipe for Hollywood heartbreak.
Over the past century and a half in America, hundreds of millions of first-time male and female baseball fans have attended baseball games and wondered to themselves, "Hold up, how long is this thing? Do I need to call the babysitter and tell them to just adopt my kids? Is my will prepared?" Usually, however, they make it past the second inning. Not so much for this woman, who has gone hilariously viral for the exasperated-sounding article she was spotted reading less than a third of the way into the game. Since it was taken on April 13, the game is probably over—but this is baseball, so there's no guarantee:
On a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Seattle, Hakima Abdulle (a Muslim woman) was kicked off a plane, The Independent reports, for asking the man sitting next to her if they could switch seats. The man was sitting in an aisle seat, and it's a well-known fact that for full-grown adults, the aisle is the best seat. Unfortunately, Ms. Abdulle was wearing a headscarf, which is almost (totally) definitely what prompted a flight attendant to have her (and her headscarf) ejected from the flight.
After the man graciously let Hakima Abdulle have his seat, a flight attendant approached her and said that she was not allowed to switch seats. On another airline, this might have been true. This, however, is Southwest Airlines, which is famous for its unassigned seating. It's kind of Southwest Airlines' thing. It's, like, one of the things Southwest Airlines is best known for. Southwest Airlines has unassigned seating. You'd think their flight attendant would be aware of that.
Ms. Abdulle, who was traveling to stay with and help a pregnant family member in Seattle, asked why she could not switch. In response, the flight attendant ordered her off the plane. Ms. Abdulle, who is not a native English speaker, called her husband Abukar Fadaw, who asked to speak to the flight attendant. When he asked why his wife was being kicked off the flight, he said, "They ignored me." Then, they led her off the flight. "She was crying in front of everybody," said Mr. Fadaw.
Police interviewed the flight attendant at the gate and asked if there was a specific cause for the ejection. "No," was the answer, merely that she did "not feel comfortable" with Adbulle. It's not like this is a new thing, as with the case of this entire non-religious family abruptly put on a no-fly list halfway on their journey to Disneyland.
Southwest Airlines said, in a statement, "We are not in the business of removing passengers from flights without reason, our goal is to get each one of our Customers to their final destination safely. We are responsible for the comfort of all passengers and do not tolerate discrimination of any kind." As to what that "reason" was, the statement said, "Out of respect for the customer's privacy, we will not share specifics about her conduct or travel experience."
Whatever that "conduct" was, it was so serious that Southwest immediately rebooked her on a flight leaving a few hours later. Must've been a serious concern. The couple has retained a lawyer, William Burgess, to see if this was a violation of federal discrimination law. The lawyer says this is the sixth such case he has been contacted about in 2016 alone, including a Muslim couple and their three children being forced to de-board a flight last month, also in Chicago.
Is there any better way to show that your main character is cool under fire and/or possibly a cold-blooded sociopath than to have them toss off a joke right after blowing someone away? If you love those one-liners, you'll love this supercut from Burger Fiction, the channel behind the amazing supercut of every movie phone call into one conversation, actors acting opposite themselves, and more. That's tongue-in-cheek, of course, because action movies are fantasy. If anything, sometimes the post-killing one-liner is the best kind of dark satire on the visual bloodsport we as a culture enjoy. After all, it's a hell of a lot better than watching real gladiators murder each other—and it's so hard to hear the gladiator's one-liner after (unless they're Russell Crowe).
So, video of the Zapata Racing Flyboard Air, arguably the first true hoverboard, first emerged on April 9—far enough from April 1 not to be an obvious fake, but insane enough to cause doubt on every blog on the Internet. However, at this point, it's become clear that it's real, so we're ready to post it. Real enough that you suddenly wonder, "wait, should mankind have invented this? Is this too badass? Has science gone too far?" The answer is, "probably, but it's really cool nonetheless."
As you can see, it's basically a jetpack strapped to your feet. If this sounds like a recipe for disaster, congratulations on guessing the next part of this story, revealed in a Verge interview with Franky Zapata, the man Zapata Racing is named after. Zapata told them that the design has been in the works for four years (perhaps you've seen the water-powered version that preceded this). The board is powered by four 250hp turbines, all linked to each other via wifi to maximize stabilization.
Nevertheless, on their latest test run, which went a distance of 275 meters, the battery started to run out just before Zapata landed, sending him into an uncontrolled spin. This caused him to have to ditch into the water, wiping out the electronics on the only working model. Regardless, he plans to make the next test run cover about 2 miles going about 40-50mph. And yes, they fly over water for the safety reasons, not because it wouldn't work over land.
Irish dad Tony Allen's son was afraid of spiders, but they didn't want to go around smooshing them all the time, so Allen invented My Critter Catcher, an inventive way to scoop up bugs without a crazy vacuum device for humane depositing outside the house. After all, you wouldn't want to be in a situation where you smooshed one spider and accidentally released hundreds more. Or let it get to the point where they crawled inside your...well, nevermind.
