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This makeup artist can become any celebrity with eerie accuracy, and all it takes is a ton of makeup.

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The internet is riddled with endless makeup transformations, but no one does it quite like special effects makeup artist Lucia Pittalis. She probably has one of the most diverse portfolios of celebrity transformations on the web. Pittalis is not interested in teaching you how to do winged eyeliner or any of that baby stuff, but she will show you how to transform into Iggy Pop or Keith Richards.

#iggypop #igster #makeup #makeuptranformations

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Pittalis' works doesn't conform to gender, age, or what's popular. Usually makeup artists skip over celebrities like Hulk Hogan and Gene Wilder, but Pittalis doesn't, and that's why her work is so damn cool.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

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She doesn't just gender bend. She recently completed a transformation into the Queen Elizabeth II for her birthday.

#queen #queenelizabeth #hermajesty #hermajestythequeen #queenbirthday #elizabethII

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Sure, you've seen people transform into celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Kylie Jenner, but how many people have transformed into Angela freaking Lansbury?

Makeup she wrote.

Why aren't there more woman on YouTube enthusiastically walking you through how to turn yourself into The Blues Brothers?

Wouldn't you rather transform into Don Vito Corleone than a Kardashian?

Contouring is boring. Scarface is fun.

You can follow more of Pittalis's work on her Instagram account.


Two women started going temporarily blind from looking at their phones in bed. Sound familiar?

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A study in The New England Journal of Medicinetitled "Transient Smartphone 'Blindness'" isn't quite as terrifying as the NYPD's warning about cell phones in bed back in February, but it certainly terrified two women enough to seek medical attention.

The study began with the cases of two women—a 22-year-old and a 40-year-old—who both reported recurring instances of temporary blindness at night that could last up to 15 minutes.

Also a medical concern: getting strangled by your headphones.

Both women told researchers that "symptoms occurred only after several minutes of viewing a smartphone screen" with the lights out while chillin' in bed, also known as the most natural activity known to humanity. Is nothing sacred?

An author of the study, Dr. Gordon Plant, told The Guardianthat he figured out the problem almost immediately upon talking to the women. “I simply asked them, 'What exactly were you doing when this happened?'” Turns out they were lying down, on their sides, with one eye buried in a pillow and the other peaking out at the glorious glow of the smart phone.

Just keep that lower eye off the pillow.

This allowed the smartphone eye to become adapted to the light, while the pillow eye adjusted to the dark and became dilated. "Subsequently, with both eyes uncovered in the dark, the light-adapted eye was perceived to be 'blind'" because it could not see as well in the dark, concluded the article in the medical publication.

Dr. Plant assured his patients that the temporary blindness does no lasting damage, but one of the women was, according to The Guardian, "more skeptical and kept a rigorous monthslong diary tracking her fleeting vision loss before she finally believed him."

Still, she wouldn't stop looking at her phone before bed. And who could possibly blame her? She's only human.

Man worries his boyfriend's niece is homophobic before realizing she's just a toddler.

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In an exclusive video testimonial for Upworthy, a man named Prim revealed the moment he was forced to face all his fears about the world judging him for being gay, and realized just how much the world has changed for the better. It all started when his live-in boyfriend's three-year-old niece came to stay with them.

As it turns out, little kids shouting "No!" doesn't necessarily mean they're bigots. Lots of toddlers just love the word "No." It's inspiring, unless you're a parent. Then it's annoying.

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Fit mom simultaneously has saggy skin, stretch marks, and a six pack.

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Behold! It is an Instagram account that combines two of the internet's favorite trends: postpartum bodies and fitness transformations. Marissa Fearon, 27, is a mom of three in Ontario, Canada, who is chronicling her journey through the popular Bikini Body Guides (BBG) fitness program on her page, babiesandpushups_.

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She's been proudly promoting her progress, as well as her pride in the postpartum stretch marks and loose skin that happen when you grow a baby inside of you and then push it out.

She's also very strong.

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A little bit of a different #transformationtuesday comin' at ya today. The photo on the left is days before giving birth to my first baby, almost 7 years ago. From that day on my body never felt like it belonged to me. It carried my sweet boy for 9 months. Then it nourished him for his first year. Then shortly after that it carried my baby girl for 9 months. Then it nourished her for her first year almost. Then shortly after that carried my last little babe for 9 months. In between pregnancies I tried to stay "healthy". But I wasn't healthy at all. I did cardio here and there. Made some sad attempts at weight machines at the gym. Ate like crap. Etc etc. But the last 7 and a half months, my body has finally felt like my own again. After being completely changed, rearranged and put back together after 3 kids - it finally feels like it's mine and I am in control of it and that's the best feeling in the world. It is more than possible to be fit after kids and it is the most accomplished feeling in the world! Making health and fitness a priority in my life was the best decision I've made. To all the moms out there postpartum, prepregnancy, pregnant or just struggling to find the balance. YOU CAN DO THIS!! It will be hard. You will want to quit. But just keep in mind it is SO worth it and it is ALWAYS worth it. It isn't selfish of you to want to better yourself. And if you have kids, you will be setting such a good example of a healthy life for them to look up to.

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"Learning to love and appreciate our bodies for what they are now is the bravest thing a mama can do and every day I feel braver and stronger than ever," she told The Daily Mail, "I am proud of this stomach, even if it is less than perfect. Perfect is boring anyways."

9 pairs of celebrities who are cousins with each other.

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Cousins enjoy an odd distinction: they're sort of friends, but also relatives. Or maybe they’re distant, and only see each other reluctantly at a wedding or a funeral. So imagine how weird it is for celebrities with cousins who are also famous. They see their family at every red carpet event and swanky Hollywood party. Here are nine pairs of celebrities who come from uniquely talented families.

1. Melissa McCarthy and Jenny McCarthy.

One of them has an Oscar nomination, and the other one married a lesser Wahlberg.

Back in the ‘90s, Jenny McCarthy was the more famous one, having been in Playboy a bunch of times and co-hosting MTV’s Singled Out. She gave her cousin, aspiring actress and improv comedian Melissa McCarthy, her first acting gig. (On an episode of MTV’s The Jenny McCarthy Show, McCarthy played “Melissa.”)


2. Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz.

Al Roker is the one person in the world who wouldn't sleep with Lenny Kravitz.

The Today weatherman is first cousins with the late actress Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis for 10 years on The Jeffersons. Her son is rock star and proud pants-ripper Lenny Kravitz, making him and Al Roker second cousins.

3. Taryn Manning, Peyton Manning, and Eli Manning.

And they all get together to watch Bloodline. (Just kidding, nobody watches Bloodline.)

Taryn Manning is best known for portraying Tiffany “Pennsatucky” Doggett on Orange is the New Black, a show set in a prison. Ironically, her cousins are among the few pro football players not in jail: quarterback brothers Peyton Manning and Eli Manning. (Her father is cousins with the guys’ dad, Archie Manning.)


4. Bill Bellamy and Shaquille O’Neal.

Pictured: The '90s.

Bellamy is a standup comic, was an MTV veejay in the ‘90s, and was robbed of an Oscar nomination for his starring role in Def Jam’s How to Be a Player. His cousin, however, is an actual player… of basketball! His cousin is Shaquille O’Neal, best known for putting up with Kobe Bryant and for playing Kazaam the rapping genie in Kazaam. They were also in this Reebok commercial together in 1998.


5. Half of Jodeci and Fantasia Barrino.

"Close to me just like my mother, close to me just like my, uh, cousin? Yeah?"

R&B duo K-Ci and JoJo (who had a #1 hit with the middle school dance-ready slow jam “All My Life”) were a spinoff of their previous group, Jodeci. That group consisted of two sets of brothers. K-Ci and JoJo are two of those brothers, and their second cousin is Fantasia Barrino, who won American Idol in 2004 and later starred in The Color Purple on Broadway.


6. Guy Ritchie and the Duchess of Cambridge.

Here is a British person followed by a person who is even more British!

Guy Ritchie (director of Snatch, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and other movies your freshman year roommate adored) betrayed his English heritage by marrying Madonna, a woman who only sounds like she’s a fancy British lady. His actual cousin—sixth cousin, to be exact—is actual fancy British lady Kate Middleton (a.k.a. The Duchess of Cambridge).


7. Snoop Dogg, Ray J, and Brandy.

At every family reunion, they bring their cups, but they don't chip in.

Ray J, the famous singer/Kardashian sex tape participant, is the real-life brother of pop star Brandy. Both are cousins to the gin and juice enthusiast/LBC chronicler formerly known as Snoop Lion.


8. Monica and Ludacris.

This is real life, so there is Mekhi Phifer.

Brandy’s romantic rival in song Monica is also, oddly enough, real-life cousins with a major rapper: Chris "Ludacris" Bridges.


9. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.

Keeping it in the family.

Hey, remember when everybody used to play the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” and they tried to link an actor to Bacon through common costars in six movies or less? Well, in 2012, the respective stars of Footloose and The Closer went on the PBS genealogy show Finding Your Rootsand learned that they’re distant cousins. They’ve also been married since 1988. This is one case where they could have used a few more degrees of separation.

Student with Ivy League scholarship reveals he's undocumented, dismantles Twitter haters.

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Erik Vargas is a recent high school grad with stellar grades and college scholarships, and he's attending the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. He also recently received extreme backlash on Twitter after he admitted that he's an undocumented immigrant.

His announcement of this achievement and his immigration status is what started the trouble:

At first, he was thrilled to receive so many likes and such positive attention for the tweet. But that soon changed. Vargas had to delete the tweet after what he calls the "Trump Twittersphere" began flooding him with hateful comments and direct messages.

Here's an example of a message he received:

He was aware this could happen, and it was in fact his motivation for the tweet in the first place:

As ironic as it may sound, I did it for visibility.

There is a blind, unjust, conservative belief among far too many Americans that immigrants — specifically those who come from south of the border or anywhere else that’s not Western Europe — are generally bad people. We are stupid, we are rapists, and we are evil, they say.

Vargas wanted to be an inspiring face that contradicts some people's assumptions about undocumented:

But, for the sake of more than 11 million undocumented American lives, I believe it’s crucial that undocumented Americans say just that. It is crucial that people know that we are terrific human beings. It is a crucial risk to take.

A lot of the haters forgot that scholarships can come from private and non-profit organizations (which means they do not include any government money). Vargas was certain to point this out:

He also had some fun with trolls who still did not quite grasp that concept:

More and more undocumented students are being vocal and visible about their status, especially when they're headed to top universities like Vargas:

If more undocumented students are speaking out, it looks his plan is working. They'll just have to balance the time-consuming effort of defeating trolls on Twitter while succeeding in the Ivy League.

'Kimmel' staffers read texts from their dads that are more humiliating than the meanest tweets.

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In a natural sequel to the Mother's Day Mom Texts segment,Jimmy Kimmel celebrated Father's Day by having his staff do dramatic readings of the funniest texts they've gotten from their real live dads. The dads texted about dad-like things like joking about mom and "meemaw," asking for Dave Matthews tickets, and getting very drunk.

The dad of a young male staffer with a nice blue shirt takes the cake for having received the most Dad request of all time:

He should know better than to come between a dad and his Billy Crystal sequels.

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10 times Hollywood decided an older actor deserved to have a much younger love interest.

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Hollywood is associated with fame, riches, and youth—unless you're a man, in which case age is but a number, and of course you can go about saving the world when you're 50. After that, you get to take home the young hot thang that the producers brought in to entice audiences. If you're a woman, then you might be allowed to get it on with a young guy, but chances are there's no world-saving involved, but rather some very illicit affair.

Things you can tell a woman in Hollywood, but not a man.

According to data GraphJoy compiled in 2015, about 53 percent of Hollywood films pair a male actor with a female actress who is six or more years younger. That's in stark contrast to the statistic that in 53 percent of real-life heterosexual marriages, the man is only 1-3 years older than his wife.

As you have perhaps noticed on screen, as actors get older, their lady loves stay roughly the same age. The jump occurs at age 35, according to GraphJoy. Prior to the mid-30s, men are acting alongside women who are younger than them about 58 percent of the time. Once hitting the virile age of 35, men get to star with younger women a whopping 91 percent of the time.

In all of these 10 movies, the actors are beyond the age of 35—and none of the women are. Perhaps one could explain away the casting of these younger women due to the roles they played and their acting abilities. Then again, the rumor on the street is that women between the age of 35 and 65 can also act. And if the public is supposed to be buying all these wrinkly superheroes saving the world, then surely actors can be sleeping onscreen with women who are closer to menopause than their first period.

1. Brad Pitt (40) and Rose Byrne (24), Troy

Brad Pitt's Achilles saves Rose Byrne's Briseis from his fellow soldiers, which is supposed to redeem him for taking her as a war trophy. When you think about it, this 2004 movie could've been a little more epic in terms of gender dynamics.

2. Colin Firth (53) and Emma Stone (25), Magic in the Moonlight

In this 2014 Woody Allen movie, an older dude hooks up with a young, hot woman. What makes this movie different from other Woody Allen films? Well, Colin Firth is British, and there's a healthy dose of racism embedded in his character, who moonlights as an illusionist by the name of Wei Ling Soo.

3. Bradley Cooper (37) and Jennifer Lawrence (22), Silver Linings Playbook

For the adaption of Matthew Quick's book, Jennifer Lawrence put on her big girl pants to play the love interest of Bradley Cooper's mentally unstable character. Sure, Lawrence did a good job and won an Oscar for her role in the 2012 movie. She doesn't quite come off as a 30-something woman, though.

4. Johnny Depp (48) and Bella Heathcote (24), Dark Shadows

If you take into account the age of Johnny Depp's vampire character (216ish) in this 2012 film adaption of the TV show, then the 24-year age difference between Depp and Heathcote, who plays his love interest in the movie, is nothing. But then if you think about how Depp was twice Heathcote's age and there was no reason for Heathcote's character to be so young looking, then it's creepy again.

5. Steve Carell (45) and Anne Hathaway (25), Get Smart

In the 2008 film adaption of the TV show Get Smart, Steve Carell played the underdog spy Agent 86 alongside Anne Hathaway's established Agent 99. Hathaway is in fact supposed to be older than Carell—she just has a really good plastic surgeon that allows her to look like a 20-something. Lots of out-of-work older actresses probably wish their surgeons were that good.

6. Richard Gere (60) and Hilary Swank (35), Amelia

In the 2009 biographical film Amelia, Hilary Swank took on the role of the famed female pilot Amelia Earhart, who married the publisher George Putnam in 1931. In real life, there was a 10 year age gap between the two. Gere and Swank widened the gap with their 25-year difference.

7. Johnny Depp (36) and Cristina Ricci (19), Sleepy Hollow

Depp has already been on this list, but he had to make a second appearance because did anybody else forget how young Cristina Ricci was in this movie? She looks like a fetus next to Johnny Depp, who played the famous Ichabod Crane in this 1999 adaptation.

8. Tom Cruise (51) and Emily Blunt (31), Edge of Tomorrow

The 2014 film that's Tom Cruises's version of Groundhog Day had a middle-aged man saving the world alongside a woman 20 years his junior. Really, this movie was a leap forward because it allowed a ripped female soldier to aid an over-the-hill action hero.

9. Denzel Washington (46) and Eva Mendes (27), Training Day

Washington's veteran cop character deserves a reward for all his hard work, and what better reward is there than a hot, young mistress? Hollywood can't answer that question.

10. Daniel Craig (47) and Léa Seydoux (30), Spectre

Vast age differences between James Bond and his women are nothing new, making Craig and Seydoux's relationship unextraordinary in the 2015 film. There was, however, something different about Spectre: Bond also got it on with Lucia Sciarra, played by 51-year-old Monica Bellucci.

Many articles were written about this astonishing casting of an age-appropriate Bond girl—or, as Bellucci would prefer, Bond woman. "I can’t say I’m a Bond girl because I’m too mature to be a Bond girl," Bellucci told The Guardian. "I say Bond lady; Bond woman." While she's too mature to be one, we're all too mature to be watching Bond girls.

Hollywood, likewise, has been around too long to continue subtly promoting sexist power dynamics through unnecessary age differences in heterosexual relationships. While May-December romances are great and all, stigmatizing older women is no good.

People from Germany, Italy, and Japan share what they were taught about WWII growing up.

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Growing up in the US, we are taught very special view of our role as heroes in WWII. But what do the "guilty" countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan teach their students? Do they refer to themselves as the "axis of evil" like Americans did? A forum on Reddit called for those who grew up in axis countries to explain what they learned about WWII growing up, and some of them definitely feel guiltier than others. (Please forgive their English as, obviously, it isn't their native language.)

1. yokelwombat is a German who was taught "as much as possible" about their role in WWII. Fortunately, we will come to find this is true for most Germans.

German here, we learn as much as possible about it. The general atmosphere in Europe that led to the nazis rise to power, how they were able to take control of the government, the major battles and figures who are associated with the war and of course the holocaust.

Most schools include visits to at least one concentration camp during field excursions (I have been to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt) and there is a very interesting art project called Stolperstein, which indicates where jews were persecuted in Germany.

In a nutshell, you know how Americans always say 'Never forget' when it comes to 9/11? Most Germans are like that with World War 2 and the holocaust.

2. Onebrella learned about the war in Japan, where emotions tend to be left out of the conversation.

Japanese here. I remember in junior high we learned general details about it and spent a lot of time learning the A-bomb. We actually went to the A-bomb dome in Hiroshima on our school excursion. The teachers were telling us how important peace is. So basically in junior high WW2 stuff was introduced us as a material to learn and think about the importance of peace. In high school, however, I learned WW2 in World History classes from the teacher who was very conservative and nationalistic. I didn't think he was biased or extraordinary at that time. I totally believed what he taught us. (like justification for, you know, the touchy stuff) Luckily, I had a chance to study Japanese history including WW2 at a university abroad and it wasn't until then I realised what I had believed might be wrong. I don't mean to say every Japanese history teacher is like him but it is true some are inculcating their twisted ideas in students.

3. 20_Bucks_Is_20_Bucks is from Bulgaria, which was not one of the main Axis powers but still on their side. He got a modified view of his country's involvement.

Am from Bulgaria which was also one of the losing countries. We blew through WW2 very quickly. In school we were taught how we should be proud of how we saved our jews not mentioning the horrid things our forces did in Serbia and Greece to their jews and populace. Bulgaria even had our own concentration camp.

Our views on the war were created during the socialist years and some aspects of our history are still not updated from that time, creating big discrepancies in how we view the 20th century(and most of our history altogether actually) compared to everybody else. Our History and Literature classes are still influenced by propaganda and I do not know when we will look back at our history with a clear and open mind.

4. tyatya confirmed the Japanese approach of skipping the sore subjects.

Japanese high schooler here. Spent most of my elementary life and some of my middle school life in the US, went to middle school in Japan. I had to say that it wasn't very great.

We did talk about how awful it was for the Japanese, the highlights being Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. It was said that we used Koreans and Chinese for slave labor, but it was skimmed a lot. Most people kind of know what we did to the Koreans and Chinese but never to the full extent and we don't really talk about it. (Ex. The rape of Nanking) This is out of class, but every fucking summer the tv networks play the same it was miserable, we need peace, we hate war cliche. But they too don't talk about what we did to the Koreans and Chinese to the full extent. I hope you understand through my awful English.

5. The_Unstoned_Tern is an Australian who witnessed first-hand the lack of education the Japanese get about their role in the war.

Australian here. I had a very awkward conversation once with a Japanese colleague who was born in the late 50s. One day, for no reason, he said to me "It must be nice to be from a country that has never known war.". Ummm, well, I said, we've been involved in pretty much every major conflict that Britain or the US dragged us into since the late 19th century. "But your country has never been attacked." Ummm, yes it has. Darwin, Broome and Northern Queensland were bombed in WWII, and Sydney was attacked in a co-ordinated suicide mission. Many lives were lost. "Oh", said my colleague. "Was it the Germans?". No, I said. "Oh," he paused. "It was us, wasn't it?". Yes, I said. He had no idea. I assume he also had no idea about the torture and murder of Australian POWs throughout the Pacific.

7. I_REE_therefore_I_am gives the very un-guilty Italian perspective. He says they consider themselves victims.

Grew up in Italy and I'm Italian in everything minus the passport.

Italians have almost taken a victim role in WW2, dissociating themselves from the crimes of the Nazis. Mussolini was actually quite well liked in the early days because while being absolutely insane, he did a lot of good for the country which had lagged behind the rest of Europe. He was super nationalistic but anti-semitism wasn't part of the early agenda, with many Italian jews being part of the government and the fascist party. In fact it wasn't until the Manifesto of Race that all the anti semitic stuff began, showing at that point the influence Hitler began to have.

Italy was dragged along for the ride in the war, and was actually quite inneffective against the allies, which meant the Germans had to come in and save them in both Africa and the peninsula. Add to this the fact that it was the Italians themselves, not the Allies, who overthrew and lynched him and Italians don't feel any guilt whatsoever for WW2. The blame is put solely on mussolini and the people feel as being on the winning side, and thus don't experience any of the remorse the Germans feel.

The funny thing is I never considered Italy being part of the bad guys until this question, which made me think how curious it is that as a people they/we don't feel any remorse or guilt. Not because we think we were right in joining the Germans, but because we don't associate with their crimes and by the end, the Italian people were on the right side of history, even though we forget we sent a lot of jews and political prisoners to Germany and Poland...

8. EternalEvo is another Italian, backing the previous Italian's claims.

Am Italian. The people don't feel shame about what happened because pretty much everyone fought against it once they realised all the wrong things he did.

Famous politician Giacomo Matteotti talked against Mussolini and his party during the Parliament, exposing his methods of rigging the elections through violence, saying he did everything illegally, knowing well he was going to die because of it (He ended his speech saying to his colleagues " I finished talking, now you should prepare the eulogy for me ") and the partisans fought all over Italy against the fascist and German troops.

Because of the partisans and their actions we don't feel ashamed, because we "redeemed" ourselves through fighting.

Obviously there were people who believed in fascism till the end and there is absolutely no excuse for them.

9. Kami_Okami is a resident of Japan, shocked by what kids there are taught.

If it means much, I'm living in Japan, and when I asked some younger college students about history, only 1 out of maybe 6 even knew what the Holocaust was. It was most of their first time ever hearing about it.

Most of them went to a very nice international high school, as well as an international college, so I'd imagine it isn't due to a lack of education.

10. TheMadDoc explains Germans spend a lot of time looking at the "why."

German here. Uhhh, you want the whole thing? We spend about a year in school talking about it, writing it all down is going to take pretty long lol. One important thing to point out, we spend a lot of time explaining why everything happened, what was going on in Germany and everyone else that actually ended up causing WWII. Not as an excuse, but more as an attempt of making us understand how everything got so fucked up

11. thankyouverymochi admits Japanese students are mostly just taught whatever is necessary to pass tests.

Hi, I'm Japanese. This is just my experience but when I was a student (Japanese high school), we learned about it, but not very detailed. Just skimmed over it. I think I still have the history book that we used, but as far as I remember it seemed that we were taught just to remember facts (names, dates, places) so we can answer incase it comes up on exams. It seems that it was the main reason that's why we are taught this part of history, and not in order to understand it. Although we did visit Hiroshima during our school trip and learned about the atomic bombing.

12. xTyrez has a very typically structured German response to this question, but says his education spared no one's feelings after 9th grade.

Source: Am German

When you grow up here and you are still rather young, you get the sense that you (as in Germans) fucked up in the past and its a lingering feeling but you are too young to understand or make sense of it.

As in you might wave to someone with your right arm and hold it up to long and somone scolds you for it or a parent quickly tells you to lower your arm and they try to tell you why.

In short Every german Student has atleast 5+ years of history that is either directly or indirectly about WW2 and it's effects on the world we live in today.

Looking back what struck me as weird, was we coverd WW2 in large parts and there where hints here and there about the warcrimes, but they waited till 9th Grade and then unloaded a shitton of information on us stretched over months. (maybe they thought we where to young before)

I felt ill more than once after the X video was shown to us in which massgraves or Detention Camps where shown.

I visited the Concentrationcamp Dachau (and another smaller camp) with my school and there was a heavy focus on us knowing what exactly happend there, starting with numerous videos on people entering the camp and the piles of bodies.

I know it wasn't meant as such by the Teachers, but you feel like a piece of shit, walking through a place in which countles lives have been ruined by your ancestors and you feel that weight, or it comes back. I still feel shitty whenever someone calls me a Nazi or acccuses the Germans of being racist warcriminals.

All in all i feel it was important that we had such a big focus on it, since i honestly believe in the statement, that those who don't learn about history will repeat it.

13. And finally, REMagic42 has the perspective from the Swiss side, which we have all been informed stayed neutral. He says they were taught they were innocent despite clear evidence showing they aided the Nazis.

Swiss here (not the answer you are looking for, but we are right to the south of Germany and by no means innocent in this whole mess)

In Swiss education, what you learn about WWII depends a lot on your teacher and the school you are going to. Sure, we learn the stuff about Hitler's rise to power, the major battles, the aftermath of the war, but there's little to nothing about the role of Switzerland in the war, at least in the official curriculum.

For instance:

  • Switzerland gave Germany access to legal currency after the German currency was banned from international markets

  • Switzerland shut down its borders in a "the boat is full" policy (which is still making me shudder when I hear it today...), effectively being guilty for the capture of thousands upon thousands of Jews who were trying to flee certain death.

  • Switzerland allowed Italy and Germany to use its railway system for trade.

  • Switzerland was involved in the decision to print a "J" in the passports of Jewish people so they could be recognized at the borders. Some historians go as far as calling it a Swiss invention.

  • Switzerland financially supported Germany

  • Private Swiss companies sold war material to Germany

  • Nazi gold...

These are just a few instances where Switzerland was definitely directly supporting Nazi Germany.

Sure, the official response to the rise of Nazi Germany was to be "defiantly Swiss", counter the racial ideology ("The Swiss have German blood") with Swiss nationalism, but secretly many many people in Switzerland were supportive of the Nazis. Nowadays, our conservatives try to paint a picture of an innocent Switzerland that had nothing to do with the Holocaust or WWII in general (which might also be the reason why we didn't investigate our own role in the war until the 1990s!), and even when we found out in the 90s that our national bank has basically stolen gold from Jewish families, we are very hesitant to teach our role in the war - we weren't that bad after all, Hitler was evil and we are innocent!

Article 7

Groom refuses to let a little rattlesnake bite put a damper on his big day.

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Meet Johnny and Laura Benson. Right after the couple said "I Do", they decided to snap a few pictures with wedding photographer Maddie Wilbur at the picturesque Horsetooth Reservoir in Fort Collins before heading to their reception.

Aw, so in love and so unsuspecting.

When the couple was all but 50 feet away from the parking lot, disaster struck when a rattlesnake came seemingly out of nowhere and bit Johnny on the ankle. According to Maddie's Facebook, the three of them tried to wave down a passing park ranger who apparently just waved back and said "Congratulations!" before noticing something was actually very wrong and coming over.

Girl's still working those bridal photoshoot angles, though.

Now, in case you have never watched Animal Planet before, rattlesnake bites are bad news. Real bad news. Rattlesnake venom acts fast, and can either attack the skin tissue or the nervous system, and victims who have been subjected to a venomous bite need to respond quickly, or results could be fatal. Laura and Johnny just pledged "till death do us part" not even two hours prior, but they definitely weren't expecting something like this to happen.

That snake in the grass was a real snake in the grass.
Maddie just kept doing her job despite all the chaos.

Soon an ambulance arrived, and Johnny and his new wife were transported to Poudre Valley Hospital.

Love bites.

This was not about to become Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Someone put cans and a "just married" sign on the back of that thing.

Luckily, once Johnny arrived, doctors gave him the good news that there was no venom in the snake bite, and that he was going to be perfectly okay.

"lol remember when that snake bit me?"

For better or for worse?

The newlyweds were in and out in a matter of 20 minutes, and even made it to their reception on time. Maddie Wilson wrote on her Facebook page:

I’ve never seen such a emotional “grand entrance” as all 184 guests cheered when Johnny & Laura walked in, and showered them in a sea of passionate hugs. I admire Laura & Johnny so much for staying calm, and holding each other’s hand through the first great test of their brand new marriage. The whole reception was filled with laughs, smiles, & jokes about it being a typical “Johnny Benson” wedding experience.

Yay! They're both alive and married! So much to celebrate.

Guy may have finally figured out how to make Comcast pay the $1,775 they owed him for nearly 2 years.

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Comcast admitted they owed a customer, at this point known only as Robert, $1,775 after charging him an "early termination fee" for no reason. According to Consumerist, they then told him that even though it was their fault, he could go ahead and "dispute the payment" with the bank instead of expecting a check from them. This is just about the corporate version of, "yeah, you can go ahead and f--- yourself."

The details of the situation are even more infuriating. Unfortunately, they're also pretty believable if you've ever subscribed to Comcast.

In a related story, Comcast once changed the name of a customer to Asshole Brown.

Robert negotiated with Comcast and dropped his small business contract with them in 2014. That's when the erroneous charge occurred—which was deducted from his checking account. Two months after Comcast told him they'd pay him back, in January 2015, he called again.

Robert told Consumerist: "The rep actually laughed when I told her I didn’t get a check yet. She said it would take three months." Guess whether he got the check or not.

Most likely, this building has connection problems.

When he finally got in touch again in June 2015, they again told him they'd send the check. When he got through to them again in January 2016, Comcast went with the hilarious statement, "We made a mistake and this time the check is really getting sent out."

Now comes the email that apparently led Robert to blab to the media. Keep in mind this is about two years after the initial incident. Also keep in mind they myriad assurances from Comcast that his check would get sent out.

I understand you’re claiming that someone advised you Comcast would send a refund check for the last payment that was debited but this is generally not the way we handle these situations. We generally only issue a refund check for a disconnected account with a credit balance leftover. For your situation, you would have to dispute the payment with your bank.

Are you bubbling over with righteous anger yet?

Well, Consumerist reached out on Robert's behalf, and Comcast got right back, claiming "through some error the refund check never generated" and that Robert would have it between 7-10 business days. Ars Technica also picked up the story, and Comcast told them, it's "unfortunately true, but we got it resolved very quickly today and a check is in process" and the "customer should not have had to go through this and we have apologized for it."

The best way to get justice from Comcast? Apparently, just get your story picked up by national media. No big deal. And even then, who knows if he'll actually get the check.

Dad surprises embarrassed son with full-page newspaper ad trying to find him a wife.

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Arthur Brooks, 78, spent $900 on a full-page ad in Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Press newspaper in attempt to find his 48-year-old son Baron a wife. Using the blunt headline “Looking For a Wife,” Arthur laid out some very old-fashioned requirements for the would-be wife that could only be written by an old man named Arthur. Poor Baron was unaware his father was going to do this, and told The Spokesman-Review he is now rightfully embarrassed:

I can’t even describe to you how embarrassing and ridiculous this is. What am I supposed to do? He already did it. No sense in defusing a bomb once it’s already gone off.”

Poor Baron. This ad could have read "short older guy seeks younger, shorter, better-looking woman to stay at home with kids." Here's the full ad text:

My name is Baron Brooks. I am 48 years old, never been married and live in Salt Lake City. I am looking for a wife who is ready, willing and able to have children as soon as possible. I look just like my picture except I now have grey hair.

ABOUT YOU: You will probably be between the ages of 34-38 but that can be flexible. You will be attractive being height and weight proportional. Ideally, you will have no children from previous marriages but that is also flexible.

HERE ARE THE MUSTS: You must be willing to move to Salt Lake City as that is where my business is located. You must be politically conservative. This is very important to me. If you voted for Obama or plan to vote for Hillary you are not for me. I am 5'5" and if you are 5'8" & like to wear high heels it may not work. Religion is open. I would expect that if we have children you would be a stay at home mom.

ABOUT ME: I own two health food stores in Salt Lake City. I was born and raised in Los Angeles and moved here ten years ago for my business. I am Jewish but not very religious in a formal sense although I am spiritual. I own my own home.

I have asked my father to screen people for me. He will be at the Couer d'Alene Resort. You may call for an interview on my behalf on Friday June 24th at 208-765-4000. When calling the resort ask for Arthur Brooks. Interviews will take place Saturday June 25th. Please bring a short on page description, background and a current photo.

This is absolutely not a scam. The person or persons selected will be given round trip air tickets as well as first class lodgings. You may bring a chaperone if you wish; mother, father, friend, etc. Their expenses will also be paid. We will go out on a dinner date and go from there.

THIS IS A SERIOUS REQUEST PLEASE BE SERIOUS AS WELL.

Despite being embarrassed by the ad, Baron is going to humor his father and do the interviews should any women respond. He also told The Spokesman-Review that Arthur has had recent health troubles and is anxious for a grandchild. He explained that wife auditions are being held at the resort in Idaho because Arthur recently vacationed there and felt it might be fertile ground for conservative ladies.

If you know any single, short, childless, conservative, pretty women interested in a speed date in Idaho, be sure to pass along the ad.


Lady with ostomy bag barred from accessible toilet for not wearing her poop on her sleeve.

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Sam Cleasby was at a Stone Roses concert in Manchester when a potential disaster struck—she had to use the bathroom. Cleasby has an ostomby bag, a "medical device worn to collect waste from the body" that attaches to her intestine. So her situation became even more fraught with anxiety (on top of the fact that she'd have to leave her comfortable spot at the show to make an odyssey to the restroom) when a security guard wouldn't let her use an accessible bathroom.

I had the BEST time seeing The Stone Roses at the Etihad stadium in Manchester last night!!! Absolutely amazing gig and...

Posted by So Bad Ass on Sunday, June 19, 2016

I had the BEST time seeing The Stone Roses at the Etihad stadium in Manchester last night!!! Absolutely amazing gig and I cried like a baby, super emotional to see a band who were so important to me when I was getting into music and even better to share it with my 15 year old son.

But yet again, disability ignorance struck when I needed to use the toilet with my ostomy bag.

My bad as I forgot my radar key, so I asked a security woman if I could use the accessible toilets, I would have happily explained my needs but she immediately barked at me that "they're for people in wheelchairs!"

"No. They're not, they're for people who have extra needs"

"They're for wheelchairs, you're not using them!"

"You're wrong, they are for people who have extra needs" I said "I've got an ostomy bag..."

"I don't care what youve got, you're not using them and if you're not happy go speak to that security man over there" she said, obviously thinking I was a blagger.

I went and spoke to another guard, asking for access to the toilets, he asked what my needs were and I said "I have an ostomy bag..."

"Say no more!" He said. Come on over, and let's get you sorted. I said I was sorry to cause a fuss and he was lovely, said there were loads of people who needed them.

I went in and dealt with my bag that had started to leak underneath, threatening to completely ruin the gig for me and my family. I cleaned myself up and went back to the best gig of the year!

As I left he told me if I needed to use it again to speak to the security I'd first approached. The cheeky cow said "oh she asked me first and I said I couldn't as I didn't have a key!" The lying toad!!!

Anyway crisis averted by a lovely guard who knew his job and was willing to listen and help. Surely all staff should be trained in disability and accessibility?!

Going out and about with an ostomy bag can be really scary, the fear of leaks or accidents is enough to make you want to stay home. So facing people who are unwilling to help and ignorant makes life so much harder.

Just be aware that everyone is fighting their own battles, that disability doesn't just mean being in a wheelchair and denying someone use of a toilet may give you a power trip but is soul destroying for those who are just trying to live a normal life despite any illness and disability we may have.

Be kind yo

To empty an ostomy bag in public is a process often aided by the use of an accessible toilet, and in the UK, people with ostomy bags often have a "radar key" that allows them in. Unfortunately, Cleasby forgot her key, and one security guard at the concert had zero sympathy for what many people refer to as an "invisible disability."

Since the security guard claimed that only people in wheelchairs could use those bathrooms—something patently false—she was forced to search out a more sympathetic authority. Luckily, she was able to find one in the form of a much more understanding guard. His basic decency classifies him a hero, which is sort of sad.

Happy #worldibdday2016 Be so bad ass today! ❤️

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Cleasby's obviously proud to advocate for all people with invisible disabilities, and hopefully through her story, incidents like this will become less frequent. You shouldn't have to completely expose yourself to gain access to a bathroom. In other words, just be kind yo.

Army specialist denied leave for a baby shower gives more 'manly' excuse instead.

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A male army specialist who was denied leave to go to a baby shower came back with a more... rugged excuse, according to a Reddit user. Forget gender reveal cakes and guessing the baby's weight—this soldier is off to become Ron Swanson.

His revised remarks read:

Going home to the Appalachian mountains to drink whiskey, wrestle bears, and shoot lots of guns. I also plan to grow out a beard, chop down a hundred trees with my axe and eat 10lbs of thick cut bacon with my wife, whom I plan to have lots of unprotected sex with, because I am a man and that's just what we do. Football.

No word on whether or not his revised approach worked. Of course, the commanding officer could have just been confused because many baby showers are women-only (though this traditional approach may be going out of style). And, as always, a disclaimer that this is from Reddit and could therefore be totally fake.

Little girl gets her loose tooth removed by a squirrel, and her dad is absolutely thrilled.

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The internet is now one step closer to having literally every weird thing you can imagine because YouTuber David Freiheit, aka Viva Frei, recently used a squirrel to remove his daughter's loose tooth. Thankfully, this was done in what one can only imagine is the safest and most ethical way to have a squirrel remove a child's tooth. Bet you didn't wake up today thinking you were going to have to consider the ethics of a squirrel pulling a child's tooth out, eh? But here you are.

This isn't the first time Freiheit has been involved with squirrel-based antics; you might remember him as the guy whose GoPro was stolen by a squirrel:

Now, if he just uses a GoPro to pull his daughter's next tooth out, this filmmaking trilogy will be complete.

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