Vaping and face swapping: two things millennials love, two things parents just don't understand, and two things that combine for the trippiest experience you can enjoy without having vaped something yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSBLxOKx0fQ
Dorrit Shank face swapped with her boyfriend whilst vaping, and found herself floating away.
The couple began laughing hysterically mid-Snap, as you will too. Here it is in GIF form to more easily watch on an infinite loop:
If the Ghostbusters reboot is going the super-modern route, it's possible the ghosts are actually faces on vape smoke. Shank gets an A+ for fueling nightmares, and for living the best vape life.
5. David Hasselhoff, because his ex-wife keeps hassling the Hoff for alimony.
Although it's easy to think of David Hasselhoff as an immortal, hairy-chested sex god, he's getting older. His days of running shirtless on the beach and driving talking cars are well behind him, and that famously hairy chest has long since turned gray (probably his back, too). The man is 63, and he's looking to retire. But as he told a judge, his ex-wife is making that impossible.
According to legal documents found by TMZ, Hasselhoff is asking a judge to terminate his alimony requirements to ex-wife Pamela Bach. The two have been divorced for almost 10 years, during which time David has had to Hoff up a whopping $21,000 every month. He claims Bach has made no effort to become self-sufficient, and the financial burden of supporting her is making it impossible for him to retire, at least while maintaining his lifestyle. What a Hassel.
How many more unbearable Baywatch reboots will it take before this man can stop working? This is no longer a domestic issue—the world needs David Hasselhoff to retire. Please judge, think of the children.
4. Rosario Dawson, because she was arrested for her beliefs.
Rosario Dawson is more than just an actress who appears on Marvel's Daredevil (which kicks ass by the way)—she's also a devoted activist with her fingers in a variety of philanthropic pies. Recently, she's become a passionate supporter of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, because she shares his favorite cause of taking big money out of politics. What's more, she'll sit wherever she has to to get that message across. Her butt is that committed.
On Friday, Dawson attended a "Democracy Spring" rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. She and a group of fellow protesters crossed police lines to stage a sit-in, leading them to be threatened with arrests. They declined to move, and so all of them, including Dawson, were detained. She spoke to The Young Turks after the incident:
Police only held Dawson briefly and fined her $50. So there was sadly no need for Daredevil to rescue her from custody, possibly getting involved in a badass hallway fight in the process. That would have been awesome, though.
3. A guy who broke the world record for binge-watching and almost lost his mind.
Binge-watching is the new normal for consuming television. People around the world will regularly sit down for a straight eight-hour session watching Daredevil (or lesser shows that don't involve people fighting in hallways). But how much is too much? One Brooklyn man set out to answer that question last week, and nearly went mad in the process.
25-year-old Alejandro ‘AJ’ Fragoso set an official Guinness World Record last week by binge-watching TV for 94 hours straight. In an event sponsored by software company CyberLink, Fragoso and several other contestants set out to watch as much TV as they could, including bingeing favorites like Game of Thrones, Battlestar Galactica, and Bob's Burgers. All of the other contestants crapped out after mere days in front of the tube, but Fragoso had the right stuff. By the time he could take no more, he had shattered the previous world record by two hours. He is now officially the most talented TV watcher in the world.
But all that TV took its toll. By the end, doctors found his heart rate was elevated, and he was reporting visual hallucinations. There are periods of the event he doesn't remember. And his butt probably hurts, but that's speculation. How could it not hurt though?
2. George Clooney, because Bernie Sanders is misquoting him.
George Clooney and Rosario Dawson have something in common—Bernie Sanders getting them in trouble. But at least Dawson supports him. Clooney is all about Hillary Clinton, but that's not saving him from getting Berned.
Clooney and Sanders first got into it a few weeks ago, when Sanders claimed that the amount of money Clooney was raising for Clinton at campaign events was "obscene" (although he added that he's a fan, like that helps). Then, during an interview on Meet the Press, Clooney was asked if he agrees that individuals paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for seats at a fundraiser is obscene. He replied:
Yes. I think it’s an obscene amount of money. I think – you know that we had some protesters last night when we pulled up in San Francisco and they’re right to protest, they’re absolutely right, it is an obscene amount of money … The Sanders campaign when they talk about it is absolutely right. It’s ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. I agree, completely.
He went on to explain why he would still participate:
We need to take the Senate back because we need to confirm a Supreme Court justice, because that fifth vote on the Supreme Court can overturn Citizens United and get this obscene, ridiculous amount of money out so I never have to do a fundraiser again.
So he feels that fundraisers are, for now, a necessary evil (like starring in Batman and Robin). But that latter part was conveniently left out of an email sent to supporters by the Sanders campaign:
Is the Democratic race finally turning dirty? No, that happened months ago.
1. A drunk kid who was arrested for spraying fart juice on bar patrons.
After all that politics, it must be a relief to read the words "fart juice." Take a second to soak it in, then enjoy the saga of Blake Zengo.
20-year-old Zengo, a University of Georgia student, was arrested at an Athens, GA bar after patrons complained that he was spraying them with a bottle of fart-scented liquid. He sprayed one woman in the eye (ouch), leading her to report the incident to police, who found Zengo standing in the bar's patio area, clearly intoxicated.
The young fartist was charged with disorderly conduct, public intoxication, and underage possession or consumption of alcohol. He was taken to Clarke County Jail and released on a $1,500 bond less than two hours later. He probably didn't want to spend any longer in prison than he had to. Fart-sprayers don't do well in lockup.
As for the bar, it lost its business for the night, as the customers all fled the powerful odor. It'll be a long time before Zengo shows his face there again, no matter what novelty product he gets his hands on.
He'll always be the Fart Kid. Memories like that tend to linger.
Nothing says you worked tirelessly for your college degree like donning a graduation cap embroidered with the words "And now it's time for margaritas." Or better yet, "Hire me." Take a look at these 30 funny graduation caps that show just how real these students' lives are about to get.
1. She will go far, indeed.
https://www.instagram.com/p/_NPWIll8Ea/
2. This student wanted out, fast.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDPFTVWFTAV/
3. Don't show this photo to her 9,000 cats.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDPMtcKPbfm/
4. Who needs a degree when you're an expert Googler?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD9xdGXiJD6/
5. Because a talking sponge who lives at the bottom of the sea is a perfect role model.
18. Owl delivery is just a terrible, terrible thing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBGKvDyO0GN/
19. According to Urban Dictionary: "Giuls is generally a young, beautiful girl, who is a boy magnet. But never a whore." Congrats Giuls, Dobby would be very proud.
Imagine sifting through old family photos and discovering one of your ancestors looked eerily like Matthew McConaughey. Turns out it happens a lot, although with other celebrities besides the shirtless wonder. After looking through the following photos, don't be surprised if you find yourself combing through your own dusty family photo albums searching for a celebrity doppelgänger.
Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard recorded an hostage videoapology tape to Australia for smuggling their two dogs, Pistol and Boo, into the country without declaring them in April 2015.
The punishment was light, but the married couple is not totally getting off scot-free; they still have to endure the ribbing of the Internet for that hilariously stiff video. Here are the funniest reactions from Twitter, which will hopefully shame all celebrities into never, ever becoming animal smugglers.
That Johnny Depp and Amber Heard apology video to Australia for smuggling their two dogs into the country without declaring them last year is perhaps the weirdest and most uncomfortable video on the Internet today. The video, released as part of the married couple's court appearance, features Depp's worst acting performance since Mortdecai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDbwVe_GpVo
(Also, he's looking more and more like a bloated Ray Liotta every day, which is mean to say, but hey, he's a f*cking dog smuggler.)
It's a bizarre video, and it's hard to make much sense of it. Luckily, Australian comedian Natalie Tran imagined what was happening behind-the-scenes, and it all makes sense now: it's a hostage video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Xh2KBI4I0
"I reckon people will think we're real friendly," she optimistically says after Depp and Heard make it through the taping alive.
So, taxes are due today, in case you forgot. Due to Washington DC observing Emancipation Day on Friday, we got three extra days this year, which gave us one more weekend to ruin with procrastination. Still not done? Procrastinate some more with this list of the 32 funniest tweets about taxes!
With Game of Thrones coming back so soon, Jack Gleeson—who played the much-maligned Joffrey—is likely feeling nostalgic. He's sidelined in Westorosi Hell while his former costars move forward in their march to take the Iron Throne. Lena Headey, who played Gleeson's mother Cersei in the show, is feeling likewise, as shown by her response to a picture tweeted at her by actress Naoko Mori.
If you scroll through the rest of Headey's Twitter, you'll find that her public persona stands in delightfully stark (get it?) contrast to her portrayal of the ice-hearted queen of King's Landing.
Aside from tidbits of gossip, weekend one of Coachella has passed without any major ongoings—unless you count Taylor Swift bleaching her hair and RiRi hanging out with Leonardo as big news, which you actually should. Besides that, the most important happenings at the celeb-filled music festival were the outfits.
Big sunglasses = big fashion.
Here are 15 outfits that you should probably never wear to work, unless you work at raves.
Taylor Swift, picking up on a fax from 1992, has proclaimed that chokers are the new thing.
From this assortment of celebrity fashions, the style takeaway from the first weekend of Coachella is that the '90s are very much in. As is anything that looks like a two-year-old alien from 1975 designed it.
In this photo posted to Facebook with the caption "Making #pizza :) :) :) #Italy", Mimi would like us to believe that she is making brick-oven pizza—a process that involves lots of flour, tomato sauce, and soot—while wearing spotless white silk lingerie and high heels.
On April 5, Khairuldeen Makhzoomi attended a dinner at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. On April 6, Makhzoomi, a University of California, Berkeley senior, boarded a Southwest Airlines plane in Los Angeles, headed to Oakland so he could return to school. On the plane, he had a brief telephone conversation in Arabic with his uncle about the dinner, which he ended with the common phrase "insha'Allah"(which means "God willing"). Shortly afterward, Makhzoomi was escorted right back off the plane, where he was detained and interrogated by the FBI.
According to Makhzoomi, whose family fled Iraq in 2002 after his diplomat father was killed under Saddam Hussein's regime, a passenger was eyeing him closely as he hung up. "She kept staring at me and I didn’t know what was wrong," he said in an interview with CNN. When he made eye contact with her, she left her seat and walked away. A few minutes later, an airport employee showed up and removed Makhzoomi from the plane. He was escorted back to the boarding bridge where three security officers were waiting. "I can't believe how fast they were," he said. Well, it's nice to know they're efficient.
Makhzoomi told CNN what happened next: "The guy who came and pulled me from the plane, he took me to the jet bridge, I believe he worked with Southwest and I must say he was aggressive in the way he treated me. He was not very nice. He tried to speak to me in Arabic, but I couldn't understand his Arabic, so I asked him to speak to me in English. I felt oppressed. I was afraid. He said, 'You seem that you were having a serious conversation on the phone. Who were you talking to?'"
The 26-year-old answered that he'd been talking to his uncle about his dinner the night before, and showed the official the video of the dinner with Ban Ki-moon. The official allegedly asked, "Why are you talking in Arabic? You know the environment is very dangerous."
Meanwhile, dogs sniffed Makhzoomi's bag, he was searched, and his wallet was taken. Makhzoomi told Raw Story that one officer publicly felt around his genital area and asked him if he was hiding a knife.
Then he was escorted away by FBI agents. Makhzoomi said one of the agents asked a question that surprised him: "You need to be very honest with us with what you said about the martyrs. Tell us everything you know about the martyrs." He told the agent that he'd never said that word, he'd only said "insha'Allah." The agent told him the woman thought he'd said "shahid," which means martyr.
Speaking to Raw Story, Makhzoomi said: "The way they searched me and the dogs, the officers, people were watching me and the humiliation made me so afraid because it brought all of these memories back to me. I escaped Iraq because of the war, because of Saddam and what he did to my father. When I got home, I just slept for a few days."
When the questioning was over, Makhzoomi was told that Southwest would not fly him back. He did get a refund though, which was absolutely the least they could do.
Prior to the departure of Flight 4620, our crew made the decision to investigate a report of potentially threatening comments overheard onboard our aircraft. A group of our employees including the flight crew made the decision to review the situation. We understand local law enforcement also spoke with that passenger as the aircraft departed the gate. To respect the privacy of those involved, we will not publicly share any further specifics of the event. We prefer to communicate directly with our customers to address concerns and feedback regarding their travel experience.
What Southwest hasn't done, though, is apologize to Makhzoomi. He told CNN, "All I want is an apology today. We as a people, Iraqi, American, Iranian, we share one thing in common, and that is our dignity. If someone tries to take that away from us, we should fight but not with aggression, with knowledge and education. One must stand for his principle."
On April 12, Henry Yau, a tourist from Houston, posted a picture to Instagram of the the staircase of the Stanley Hotel, in Estes Park, CO (The Stanley, for the uninitiated, is the hotel that famously inspired Stephen King to write The Shining, only in the book and movie it's called The Overlook Hotel). It's a pretty normal picture: lobby, sconce lights, rug, staircase, ghostly figure on staircase, just regular, normal stuff.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEGowDDzCdI/
Yau claims there were no humans around when he took this picture, but when he looked closely, he noticed something odd (verdict: ghost) at the top of the left banister.
Kevin Sampron, a paranormal expert at SPIRIT Paranormal Investigations in Denver, said that the photo doesn't appear to be photoshopped. "This could be a legitimate ghost, as far as we can tell," Sampron told KHOU News. He and his team examined the photo, and then enlarged it and converted it into black and white, so the details would be easier to see. Afterwards, the team claimed to be able to see a second figure. "To us it looks like the first figure is a lady dressed in black and to the left of her it looks like a child," Sampron said (verdict: TWO ghosts).
This isn't the first time people have claimed that the Stanley is haunted, The Shining excluded. Television shows Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted have also done episodes about the hotel.
Mariah Carey just treated her fans to an epic throwback picture 17 years in the making. Mariah Carey's 1999 song "Heartbreaker" featured a music video in which the singer played both the sweet, innocent protagonist as well as an evil, boyfriend-stealing vixen that she called "Bianca." Since then, Bianca and her small dog have disappeared into obscurity, never to be seen again. Until now.
Over the weekend, Mimi decided to bring back Bianca for a couple of Instagram posts, and she still looks good/evil enough to steal your boyfriend.
In case you forgot or were not born yet, the video for "Heartbreaker" had a pretty epic battle between Bianca (played by Mariah Carey) and Mariah Carey (played by Mariah Carey) fighting for the affection of the chubby kid in Stand By Me Jerry O'Connell. Both incarnations of Mimi get into a violent girl-on-girl brawl in the bathroom of a movie theater. If you need a refresher, check out the video below.
Now Mariah is a busy mother of two who is balancing being on tour while planning her wedding to billionaire James Packer, but back then she was just a simple gal in a crocheted belly shirt looking for love.
Colombia has a new hero and, quite fortunately, the same amount of dogs, as shown in this video of a man climbing to the apartment above his to rescue a dangling puppy. The footage of this intense maneuver will not assuage your fear of heights, but it will incite you to rush out on your balcony and make sure your dog isn't teetering off its edge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoIY_wWcYVI
In 2013, Sithknight1, the video's uploader, posted an equally impressive feat of free-climbing involving a refrigerator and a toddler, who is very possibly the radioactive creature that bit the dog-rescuer and gave him extraordinary climbing powers.
Because technology is great for things like light stalking, Spanish company Durmet has created a mattress that supposedly allows you to tell if your significant other is cheating on you. According to Oddity Central, the Smarttess comes with "ultrasonic sensors" that identify movement on the bed.
This so-called Lover Detection System renders the triggered sensors onto a 3D map. If the data looks suspicious, the information is sent to the mattress's owner through an app on their phone.
If you don't speak Spanish, that's okay, the imagery crosses all language boundaries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVp0TNTOw9E
This mattress, which is currently only availbe for pre-order, may leave you with a few questions, like "Why?" and "Will it tell me if my dog is jumping on my bed, too?"
Durmet spokesperson José Antonio Muiños told The Local that the high rate of cheating in Spain inspired the mattress. And since the mattress can detect "suspicious movement," there isn't a clear reason why it wouldn't work with dogs as well as philanders.
Here are people testing the bed, in case you were holding out that this whole thing is a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SMycNTyaWI
For only $1,750 (which is much more than, say, a camera), your mattress can give you another reason to obsessively check your phone.
The result is an inspiring celebration of a love between man and taco.
Smith told ABC News: “Anyone who knows me knows that if I were getting pictures they would be at Taco Bell. It's a pretty accurate representation of where you can find me if I'm not home!”
Taco Bell retweeted him, and he immediately became a local hero.