Kristen Bell wrote a powerful essay about her struggle with depression, the illness that can affect anyone, no matter how sunny they may seem. In a piece for Motto titled "I’m Over Staying Silent About Depression," Bell (Princess Anna herself!) tells her personal story and says "there's nothing weak about struggling with mental illness."
Bell writes about how her mom's candidness gave her the tools to seek out help:
When I was 18, my mom sat me down and said, “If there ever comes a time where you feel like a dark cloud is following you, you can get help. You can talk to me, talk to a therapist, talk to doctor. I want you to know that there are options.”
I’m so thankful for her openness on this predominantly silent subject because later, when I was in college, that time did come. I felt plagued with a negative attitude and a sense that I was permanently in the shade. I’m normally such a bubbly, positive person, and all of a sudden I stopped feeling like myself.
There was no logical reason for me to feel this way. I was at New York University, I was paying my bills on time, I had friends and ambition—but for some reason, there was something intangible dragging me down. Luckily, thanks to my mom, I knew that help was out there—and to seek it without shame.
While many interpret depression simply as sadness, Bell explained what separates the illness from the common human emotion.
Here’s the thing: For me, depression is not sadness. It’s not having a bad day and needing a hug. It gave me a complete and utter sense of isolation and loneliness. Its debilitation was all-consuming, and it shut down my mental circuit board. I felt worthless, like I had nothing to offer, like I was a failure. Now, after seeking help, I can see that those thoughts, of course, couldn’t have been more wrong. It’s important for me to be candid about this so people in a similar situation can realize that they are not worthless and that they do have something to offer. We all do.
An open, honest conversation is what it takes to stamp out stigma and encourage people to seek out the help they need, and Bell is starting with her own story.
On May 30, New Zealand mom Briar Lusia Mcqueen was out for breakfast alone with her 8-week-old son Jaxon for the first time since giving birth. Her food was just put in front of her and she was about to eat when Jaxon started crying to be fed. So like any good mom, she started feeding him, instead of eating her own breakfast. She was probably switching between gazing lovingly at this sweet tiny being she'd created and staring mournfully at the food sitting in front of her when an older lady approached the table. But not, as Mcqueen worried, to ask her to stop feeding her son. She just saw a woman in need and she wanted to help. And Mcqueen was so moved she wrote about it on Facebook.
The text accompanying the pictures reads:
Just wanted to share this really sweet moment I had this morning. Today was the first time I went out for breakfast alone with my 8 week old son, I had just received my breakfast and hot chocolate when Jaxon started crying wanting his booby so of course I fed him, after a few minutes this older lady walked up to me, I was scared, thinking she was gonna tell me to put my boob away, instead she starts cutting up my breakfast for me and said "what a good mama you are, we can't have your food getting cold can we". I honestly could have cried, loveliest lady EVER!!
Mcqueen's post has gotten over 170,000 likes, and more than 7,500 comments, mostly from other moms.
So for future reference, if you see a woman breastfeeding her baby with a full meal in front of her she can't get to over the small human using her as a milk machine—offer to cut it up. And maybe ask if she's going to finish that bacon.
While Aaron Paul can take on drug cartels, cults, and Corn Pops with ease, he totally bombs when it comes to magic.
Paul told potential James Bond and certain butt-haver Tom Hiddleston the story of how a misguided attempt at magic on the set of Mission Impossible 3 came back to haunt him at an audition for Cloverfield. Told by a friend (who was casually on Lost) that J.J. Abrams loves magic, Paul prepared a simple card trick to show on the MI:3 set, and the basic trick is really only impressive to kids and Tom Cruise. Bombing at magic is even more embarrassing than attempting magic to begin with, and Abrams didn't let it go.
Poor Paul. Luckily he managed to find some success despite Cloverfield, and retired from magic once he broke bad. Plus, the real magic in the world is science, anyhow.
In anticipation for the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Childin July, fans are getting a sneak peak of what their favorite Harry Potter characters look like as bona fide grown-ups. The play, which takes place nineteen years after Harry, Ron, and Hermione leave Hogwarts, is already sold out for months, so staring at these pictures on your computer screen might be as close as you'll get to actually watching live the eighth story in the Harry Potter series.
Yesterday, pictures were posted of Harry, Ginny and their son, Albus. Today we are treated to an all grown up Ron, Hermione, and their daughter, Rose Granger-Weasley, and they look badass as hell. Well, maybe minus Ron. He kind of just looks like Ron.
Ron is played by the very British sounding Paul Thornley.
The play begins previews later this week and will officially open on the West End on July 31. That same day the script of the play will be released to the public, so it is almost like getting that eighth Harry Potter book that you want so badly. Almost.
On May 21, Singapore-based fashion blogger Aarti Olivia Dubey posted a photo of herself and two other women (Rani Dhaschainey and Ratna Devi Manokaran) in bikinis to Instagram. The next day, the post was removed for "violating community standards." Weird, right? Instagram has lots of photos of women in bikinis—oh wait, could it be because the women in this picture had the audacity to not be thin?
The offending picture was from a photoshoot the ladies had done for a Singaporean magazine article on bikinis and plus-sized people. Dubey took to her blog's Facebook account, Curves Become Her, where she shared the picture and explained what had happened/expressed her outrage.
instagram THIS is the image that was reported by fat shamers and trolls, and YOU deleted it.
HOW is this image being...
instagram: THIS is the image that was reported by fat shamers and trolls, and YOU deleted it. HOW is this image being hateful, hurtful, abusive, trolling or obscene? Do 3 fat girls in swimsuits equate to gore, porn, racism, sexism? Or is it that people only want to see slim girls in swimsuits?
IF this image is reported and deleted again, please trust that I WILL pursue this matter just like @rupikaur_ did when her image of lying in a period stain was removed.
I am so disappointed and beyond livid right now. No Thanks to you and the people who had the gall to report this image, for making me feel so badly this Monday morning about my existence as a brown fat woman.
My dear friends on social media, if you would like to help, please do so by reposting this image and sharing this post all over social media platforms, as many as you like.
A photo posted by Aarti Olivia Dubey (@curvesbecomeher) on
In an email exchange with Fusion, Dubey wrote: "The image clearly did not violate the guidelines, we were simply three plus sized women happy after a photoshoot in our bikinis. Obviously Fatphobic trolls had reported the image and Instagram blindly removed it. Which really angered me."
She told Revelist, "At first I was confused and really stunned. But going by how mean some of the comments were in earlier posts, it turned to anger. And I remembered this happening to another plus-size friend last year and that just made me livid."
Fusion reached out to Instagram for a comment on their removal of Dubey's picture. Coincidentally enough, Instagram suddenly emailed Dubey to say that they'd made a mistake. A week later. They put her photo back up, and told Fusion that they'd apologized to Dubey and had "already taken steps to prevent this from happening in the future." It's unclear what exactly those steps are, other than maybe not automatically pulling down pictures of people just because fatphobic trolls flag them.
Dear @instagram
this is a little too late after I had to deal with all the bloody trolls and haters last week. It's...
This has not the first time a picture of a fat person in a swimsuit has been pulled from social media (surprise!). Recently, Facebook, which owns Instagram, refused to run an ad with plus-sized model Tess Holliday in a bikini—they claimed that it violated their ad policy ("Ads may not depict a state of health or body weight as being perfect or extremely undesirable"). So yes, Facebook basically told Tess Holliday that her life and her look are both "undesirable."
Mark, of popular YouTube prank channel The Royal Stampede, very much enjoyed making his sister briefly think his hand had been torn to shreds in a horrific smoothie-making incident, and you will too. Though Mark's sister fell for this well-executed blender prank pretty hard, as you can hear in her genuinely terrified screaming, she can at least rest assured knowing her instincts and reaction time during an emergency are very average. She didn't do too badly, but the couple of seconds she wasted being frozen in total shock definitely would've cost Mark another inch of finger.
Whether this prank boy let his sister drink that smoothie in return for scaring her is unconfirmed. But it's clearly the right thing to do.
If you enjoyed this, you can also watch Mark pretend to eat dog shit in front of strangers, which his life choices have somehow led him to do.
Koto Nakamura recently gave birth to a baby, which she was expecting. Nakamura was also counting on having a girl come out of her girl parts, because that's what the ultrasound technicians apparently told her. Instead, Nakamura was blessed with a baby boy, a moment that Australian photographer Jessica Jackson captured. Jackson was lucky enough to also record the exact moment when Nakamura realized that she'd prepared herself for the wrong gender.
That face could be saying a lot of things like, "Oh, fuck," or "What do we do with all the needlessly gendered clothing we bought?"
The Australian couple quickly decided that the name they'd picked out for a daughter, Hinata, wasn't going to work. They went with Taiga, which means big and gracious, according to Kid Spot. Thus far, little Taiga isn't that big.
Or are those tears over the fact that she has to deal with a boy now? If she hasn't figured it out already, Nakamura will soon realize that regardless of a baby's gender they poop, cry, and poop some more.
In a new promotional video for Lyft (the Uber of non-Uber ride sharing services), NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal went undercover as a driver in Los Angeles, the city where he played as a Laker for eight years. He donned a number of disguises, involving several crazy wigs, enormous costumes, and terrible accents (the Jamaican one is especially heinous). But despite the fact that he was on home turf, poorly disguised, and he's a 7'1" incredibly famous athlete, people somehow failed to realized it was him.
Has Shaq been a master of disguise this whole time? Maybe other famous NBA players were just him incognito: LeBron James, Larry Bird, Muggsy Bogues… or maybe Lyft just edited out the 1,000 people who saw through the prank immediately. Either way, it's funny. You can't not love Shaq.
Megan Fox is promoting Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles: Out of the Shadows, which looks about as good as the first one. For the purpose of getting parents hyped up about the movie their kids will be begging to see, Fox visited Jimmy Kimmel Live!where she talked about her third baby who is currently cooking inside of her. This baby has a lot to say already. Kimmel helped her name the baby Toucan.
"You don't hear an audible voice but I feel like you receive messages from the child if you're open to it," Fox said. "For instance, this baby wanted me to live somewhere else so we're moving to a whole different place in Los Angeles because I feel like that's where this baby wants to be raised."
If Fox hadn't been "open" to her baby's messages, would the baby have crawled out early and berated her to move?
A photo posted by Megan Fox (@the_native_tiger) on
Fox, who has two kids with hubby Brian Austin Green, added that her baby is already showing signs of being smarter than you. "I also feel like his baby is kind of telling me it's kind of like a Wernher von Braun [the space engineer] or Elon Musk," she said. Like a super genius
Great, this means Hollywood already has the new lead for the inevitable reboot of Baby Geniuses.
21st Century Baby Geniuses, starring Toucan Mountain Lodge.
When you were a kid, anything was a toy. A simple box. An empty toilet roll. A dildo, found under mom and dad's bed that instantly became your best friend forever.
Compared to some of these nostalgic tales from AskReddit, playing with a giant dildo seems downright reasonable. Just keep your kid away from PVC pipes.
6. Playing god is a thrilling game for a young Jeffrey Dahmer, or a redditor named CourageOfOthers.
Insects. I used to build Lego mazes for woodlice, paint them in racing colours, then release them to see who won. Often, losers would be fed to spiders.
I promise I'm not a serial killer...
7. At least fletchindubai's animals were already deceased by the time they became his entertainment.
I could amuse myself for hours poking a dead mole with a bamboo cane.
9. Littleglobe got ahold of a couple of mafia weapons and had endless fun.
10. TheMoonKitten is appropriately named if they'd only drop the "moon."
Well, technically they were toys, just not for...Humans.
Cat toys. I collected cat toys. I especially liked the ones where you'd pull the tail, and they'd scoot/vibrate across the floor. Not in a weird way, though. I thought they were cute lol.
When I was younger, around 10 or so. My niece was born and she would get dropped off at my house so my mom would baby sit.
Near the bag of toys was a bag that carried the diapers and stuff. Inside, I found a suction kind of 'toy'. Me being the kid that would mess around with things that were not mine, I began playing with it, using it as a water squirter. I eventually began using it to suck up water and then squirt it in my mouth.
One day, my twin brother sees me squirting water into my mouth using that suction 'toy' and tells me, "You DO know thats for the baby's boogers right?"
Mommy blogger Constance Hall is known for sharing her opinions on topics other mommy bloggers avoid like the plague, such as why being a single mother isn't the worst thing in the world.
1) They don't want a new dad for their kids. The kids have a dad and in the instances where they don't, Queens sort that job too.#legend.
2) Their kids aren't disadvantaged. The only disadvantage children of single parents face is the knowledge that their mum is being judged. Kids are clever, they pick up on that shit.
3) They aren't always broke. Single mums often work, often make a fuck load of cash, some drink Grey Goose and where Chanel, others drink goon and don't wear much, it's called #variaty.
4) They aren't uncomfortable around couples. Single mums aren't uncomfortable around couples or dogs or fire engines or sandwiches. Weird I know.
5) They didn't fuck anything up. Anybody could wake up tomorrow and become a single parent, whether they chose it or not, anyone. High horses are for twats.
6) Their kids aren't baggage. Children are assets and women who raise them on their own have very strong instincts, they won't give a bloke who sees their kids as baggage a look in. #next
7) They don't want your husbands.. They didn't spend all this time getting rid of theirs and supporting their kids and working their arses off to have to wake up next to your farting, snoring, horny delight. He is all yours ☺️
During my short stint of single motherhood a couple of years ago I felt like I wasn't in the mum crew, but I wasn't in the single friend crew either... I was#crewless (like clueless but I didn't have 2 mates) I didn't need pity because I was actually kicking goals and rocking out, it is tough but the toughest part is the stigma. #queencrew is where it's all.
Today I'm saluting single mums. I was raised by one, I respect them and I admire the shit out of them.
Hall's upfront and personal post is in keeping with her signature style. For example: that time she was sick, her kid was vomiting on her, and she was feeling bad she hadn't banged her husband recently.
This weird but amazing act on America's Got Talentlast night confused the audience and the judges, and if you watch the video, you might understand why. This mime/comedian/living Tim Burton character is known as "The Boy with Tape on his Face" or "Tape Face," and his act is as bold as his eyeliner.
Tape Face is a prop-comic from New Zealand who actually has a pretty big following already and a successful one man show that tours around the world. His real name is Sam Wills, and although he looks like a Green Day reject, his charming act won over the judges, garnering approval from all four of them to advance through to the next round without saying one word. Even so, it is hard to describe exactly what Tape Face does. This is what it says on his website.
Every once in a while, something magical reminds us that we all have an inner child that must be fed.
Through simple, clever and charming humour aimed at satisfying that hunger, Tape Face has created one of the most accessible and enjoyable shows the world has ever seen.
Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking – drama with no acting.
Tape Face has to be seen to be believed.
So what does he do exactly?
Well, simply mentioning any aspect of this diverse show would be a disservice – the less you know the more you will enjoy this show.
Tape Face is a character with universal appeal. Delightful, wry, many-layered and hilarious, he transcends the barriers of language and culture.
You’ll laugh, you’ll scream and ultimately end up like Tape Face – lost for words
That basically doesn't clear up anything, but his show seems like something that you, like Tape Face, just can't quite put into words.
Marco Arturo, a 12-year-old science buff from Mexico, is going viral for his video about anti-vaxxers that is as cute as it is informative. Arturo posts science-themed videos to his Facebook page, where he has over 28,000 fans. In his latest video, he shares the research on the supposed vaccine-autism link, and presents ALL the hard, scientific evidence.
While most people love the video, his pro-vaccine stance has brought on the trolls, who don't realize that they're being total assholes to a 12-year-old boy.
But Arturo keeps fighting the good fight. Psyched about his new viral fame, he is taking the opportunity to spread even more knowledge.
Before you push someone down the subway stairs because they are looking at their phone (ugh, seriously, can't you wait five seconds? Some of us are trying to escape this swamp hole), take a moment to read some of these suggested etiquette rules compiled by the good citizens of AskReddit. You'll feel less alone in your frustration with humanity, and it couldn't hurt to make sure you haven't accidentally been annoying the hell out of everyone, too.
1. NewClayburn tells us to move bitch, get out the way.
Don't stop when you immediately walk into a room. Other people are trying to come in too!
2. hank_moo_d reminds us to be cool when someone is doing US the favor.
If someone is picking you up, you should be the person waiting for them to arrive, not them waiting for you to be ready.
But also, if you are getting picked up, you have a right to not have to wait for your ride too long.
3. old_gold_mountain gives one suggestion that is scientifically sound.
Let people off the train before you get on the train.
If you and two/three friends are walking together on the sidewalk, be aware that you may be effectively blocking the entire sidewalk. Have the courtesy to pause your walking conversation and move to let people walking either in the other direction, or behind you walking more quickly, pass. Preferably not on on the side of traffic.
Cover your mouth when you cough, cover your mouth AND nose when you sneeze.
6. The_peep reminds us to finish that good deed to the end.
When you drop someone off at their house (or wherever), wait for them to get inside before you drive away. Maybe they lost their keys, maybe they left something in your car, maybe it's not the safest neighborhood at night, whatever. But for the sake of safety and chivalry, wait the 37 seconds it takes for them to get in their house.
He explained it, "To be polite, notice how you affect others and adjust your behavior based on what you notice. Make the people around you feel as comfortable and dignified as possible. Follow their lead, and be eager to learn how the Romans do it. If you don't know which fork to use, ask, and then be gratefull. A person in need endears themselves."
When I'm in the grocery store I stay very conscious of how much of an aisle I'm blocking, and I try to leave my cart in front of the least popular items if I need to step away from it - like in front of the canned herring instead of the Kraft Mac n Cheese. And I never, ever, EVER, under any circumstances... EVER... park my cart on the right side of an aisle and stand and look ate stuff on the left side, blocking the whole damn thing.
Situational awareness, and the realization that other people exist and would like to do the same shit you're doing. That's the quick way to say it.
9. 77remix makes like a mitochondria and fixes those cell problems.
I don't mind people using cell phones a lot, I use mine for every day things, but knowing when to have them out and when not to.
Not in the middle of a serious conversation with someone cuz that's a huge "fuck you" to them, while driving, or in a movie theater. I'm sure there's a few more examples.
Pace your eating to approximate your dinner partner's speed so that one person doesn't feel rushed for having not finished. If you are the server, do not clear any dishes until both guests are finished, unless explicitly asked.
If you're walking with a friend and bump into someone you know, but they don't know make sure to introduce them before you start catching up. That way they don't feel awkward just standing there or have to introduce themselves.
of course, maybe they dont remember that persons name, so try not to be a complete social moron and help your friend out by asking.
13. maplecherry has some excellent travel tips (all typos are her own).
When you are travelling in a foreign country where the language is not English, at least attempt to learn the key phrases "Hello", "Good day", "Goodbye", "Please", "Thank you", and "Can you speak english?" in the country you are travelling to. If you need to speak English with someone, ask "can you speak english?" in the native tongue first and don't assume everyone can speak it. If you are paying respect to the country by visiting it at least put in the effort to pay your respects to the people in their language. A lot of cultures take offense to english tourists assuming everyone can speak english.
14. edudswa reminds us it isn't raining on only you.
On a rainy day while walking on a tiny sidewalk, always raise your umbrella to avoid eye accidents.
Offer a drink to your guests within minutes of their arrival.
16. Jun_snow has an oldie-but-just-do-it-already-and-we-won't-have-to-keep-saying-it.
So many people don't seem to follow this simple rule.
Close your frickin mouth when eating.
17. SW3STY has a point as obvious as the mole on your face.
Don't point something out about someone's appearance if it can't be fixed in a few seconds
18. SnatchAddict has a terrible screen name, but excellent advice.
If you didn't pay for it, never eat the last X.
I don't care if it's a popsicle or beer, if you eat/drink my last item, that I bought for me, we're having words.
19. Rivkariver makes good cents (sorry, had to, it's the law).
Please refrain from talking about finances as a social topic equivalent to speaking about the weather.I guarantee no matter what you say, you will make at least one person feel very uncomfortable. Even a careless "oh that's not a bad price" or "wow that's expensive" will make someone feel really bad.
20. milltin123 has a good tip for anyone who will ever meet someone different than themselves.
Please don't make racist or inappropriate statements when I just met you or barely know you. You are not waging a war against political correctness just because you tell me my sister is going to get into med school because she's black. You just sound like an asshole and are possibly racist. It's not politically correct to be appropriate or civil.
21. And finally, moochiemonkey with some advice you don't have to tell most people twice.
Ty Jones is a 21-year-old from England who claims he isn't Ed Sheeran. And since the two have taken a photo together, that would seem to prove that Jones is not, in fact, Sheeran's alter-ego. But this picture of Jones shows why some have a hard time believing they haven't actually spotted Sheeran when they run into Jones on the street (the top photo is Sheeran, the bottom is Jones).
Jones told the Mirror that being Sheeran's doppelgänger kind of sucks. "He's such a big artist and I'm a massive fan of his but now it's like I can't escape it, people go mad when they think they're meeting Ed Sheeran," he said.
Looking like a pop star has made dating people tough, which he wants to do instead of finding confused fans to hook up with. "It's made my relationships worse I'd say because now I have to weigh up if they like me for me or are they're just interested in me because I'm the next best thing to Ed if they really like him."
While Jones has loads of people bugging him for photos, he doesn't seem to take advantage of his female fandom: he simply takes a pic and moves on. "When girls ask me for pictures in the streets it's annoyed some of my girlfriends in the past and caused problems. It's hard to explain because it's not like I can help it and I don't like being horrible to people and deny them a picture if they want one."
Jones has used his looks to get into clubs, though when it comes to singing on stage he tries to avoid that, for good reason: he can't sing. At least not like Sheeran. But really, how many men have a British baby angel voice? It's even less common than the face.
Couples with weird engagement photos are one of the few reasons why you still have a Facebook account. They don't pollute your feed with lovey-dovey photos taken at some lush green park. Instead, they amuse you by letting zombies run amok in their pics, like one of these 18 couples who refused to stick to clichés in their engagement photos.
1. Love is better in bulk.
In May, Redditor Kartarsh shared her engagement photos, which were taken in the nation’s #1 place to devour free food samples: Costco Wholesale. (Read more).
2. This engagement shoot started off sweet until the undead attacked.
"The couple that slays together, stays together," Imgur user TheThirstyMoose quipped. Full album, below:
3. Now, let's hope this couple can slay Michael Myers together.
"Michael's bringing the knife so that the bride can cut the cake," said Redditor Riodosm. Right there with you, Riodosm.
4. This couple is drunk in love. That kid in the back is just drunk AF.
Although probably not intended, this drunk kid just hilariously ruined his girlfriend's sister's engagement shoot. Also, Redditors couldn't help but photoshop the clearly hungover dude into some of your favorite romantic movie scenes. Like this one, of course:
5. This couple probably love cats as much as they love the Internet. Wait, that's the same thing right?
Redditor Rebubula wrote: “Our pet-sitter, who is also a photographer, took our engagement photo.”
6. This awesome couple reenacted a bunch of cult classic films.
"I hope you break all box office records and make lots of adorable sequels," said one Reddit user.
Not a recommended photo to upload if your parents frequent social media, but it's way better than getting sliced by Michael Myers (see #3).
8. This couple got engaged and their love for each other just started to snowball from there.
"I'm not seeing how these are engagement photos. None of those pictures even hint at them being engaged," argued one Reddit user. This Redditor clearly overlooked the first picture—they're caressing each other's forearms on a park bench, dude bro.
9. This couple's love is solid like the groom's photoshopped rock-hard abs.
Photoshopped or not, this couple is obviously wacky and look like they can take a joke. That's what marriage is all about, isn't it?
10. Are they attempting to quash the adage, "opposites attract"? Clearly, positives are winning, here.
Same poses, same love.
11. A beekeeper with his queen bee.
"At least she knows he uses protection," quipped Redditor Londoherty. The couple also probably wanted to remind the world that marriage is like getting stung by a bajillion bees—at least you get some honey, right?
12. They asked his brother to photoshop their engagement pic to "make them look better."
Redditors were upset that the original poster didn't retouch his brother's face at all.
So rad, but wait, what's going on here? "Matrimony core transfer complete. No stalemate detected," Redditor Oxheart wrote. Basically, this couple sought to turn their favorite video game—Portal—into reality for their engagement shoot.
14. It's okay if LARPERs ruin your engagement photo.
This past April, Redditor Onileo uploaded his engagement photo which shows him sitting on a bed of grass with his girlfriend. It was nice and all, but Onileo wrote, "the photo shoot got bombed by some LARPers." (LARP stands for Live Action Role Play).
There is no statement from the couple as to whether these LARPers deliberately invaded their shoot. Still, those Viking-looking people wielding axes (fake ones, hopefully) make for a thrilling backdrop.
15. May the gods be with you during this electrifying engagement shoot.
Several Redditors called out that the couple's photo is definitely photoshopped, with one having argued: "I'm sorry but physics doesn't work like that. The shadow of your legs should be washed out by the bright lightning behind you and be facing away from the lightning, if it was really a long exposure."
BUT—"I know it does (look photoshopped). The woman is my son's music teacher and she confirmed it was real but they did use long exposure like some have said," Dillys619 (OP: original poster) expressed.
Fake or not, that photo is pretty epic.
16. Guess which ones are the engaged couple, below.
Redditor 0ludi posted this photo with the simple caption: "engagement photo with funny guests." Unfortunately, the "funny guests" are not the dirty dancing couple.
17. Sometimes, the person you want to spend the rest of your life with isn't a person at all.
19-year-old Nicole Larson of Alberta, Canada hired a professional photographer to snap some romantic engagement photos of her and her #bae, Mr. Hut. "I wanted to do a spoof of other couples pictures because I am single and in my opinion pizza never lets you down," Larson told The Huffington Post.
San Francisco, California native David Sikorski wanted to poke fun at the overly-romantic engagement photos that filled his Facebook feed. He decided to capture some engagement photos with his one and only: a hearty burrito.
Lesson: ditch the more elegantly composed (completely vacuous) engagement photos. Go for broke on some weird concept like posing in a decrepit alleyway with a spray-painted homage that says: "Welcome To My Butthole." Your social media friends will "like" you.
Long story short, Snoop Dogg will not be watching HISTORY's reboot of the 1977 mini-series Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. Short story long, which is why you are here, is that Snoop Dogg is tired of black films and television shows focusing on slavery instead of the successes and contributions of black people in America today. The rapper posted a video of his thoughts to Instagram, ultimately calling for a boycott of the revival.
No disrespect, but I can’t watch no motherfucking more black movies where n****s get dogged out—'12 Years A Slave,' 'Roots,' 'Underground'—I can’t watch none of that shit. Sick of this shit, how the fuck they gonna put Roots on on Memorial Day? They just gonna keep beating that shit in our heads, about how they did us, huh? I mean, I don’t understand America, they just want to keep showing the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but guess what? We're taking the same abuse. Think about that part.
When are y'all gonna make a motherfucking series about the success that black folks is having? The only success we have is ‘Roots’ and '12 Years A Slave' and shit like that, huh? Fuck y’all, I ain’t watching that shit and I advise you motherfuckers as real n****s like myself, fuck them television shows. Let’s create our own shit based on today. How we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what’s real. Fuck that old shit. Right Jules?
The camera turns to reveal Jules as his one dog audience, laying on the couch with his owner.
To offer another perspective, a recent Mother Jones interview with LeVar Burton, star of the original series and executive producer of the reboot, explained why he thinks continuing to tell these stories is important.
Well, how often have we seen Holocaust stories? I bring that up because there's a wonderful tradition in Jewish culture that is about "never forget." In insisting that this story is passed onto each successive generation, it has become part and parcel of Jewish identity. Human beings have remarkably short memories, and so it is essential that we continually remind ourselves...
...The vestiges of slavery are alive and well and have been institutionalized in American culture—in the disproportionate number of black men incarcerated, in phenomena like Driving While Black. It's like Neil deGrasse Tyson says about science: "The great thing about science is, whether you believe it or not, it's still true!"...
I'm hoping that the conversation around Roots when it airs will fill in the gaps so that it is absolutely, unavoidably clear that America today is directly related to America of the antebellum South and the slave trade. And that some of the issues that we still grapple with have their roots in slavery and its attendant legacy of racism.
Both make valid points. But whether you intend to watch the series or not, you can still enjoy this video of Snoop smoking and listening to his music alone.