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Camp counselors leave kid at water park, and his mom unleashes wrath like Poseidon.

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Earlier this week, seven-year-old Peter Rapatas from Norridge, IL, was left behind by day camp counselors after a field trip to a water park. His sister, who also attends the same Salvation Army day camp, even claims she reported him missing to counselors as they left the water park. He used a lifeguard's cell phone to call his mom after he'd been left behind.

Their mom, Gina Rapatas, spoke with CBS Chicago about the incident. She was mostly furious that she did not receive a call from the camp director once they knew her son was missing:

I was just so mad, and I was like I can’t believe you guys didn’t call me. He just walked away.

The director did end up apologizing, though said there would not be a change in camp procedures. That's probably because either a counselor royally screwed up, or the kid didn't listen when he was told to get out of the water.

Swiss artist Milo Moiré lets strangers grope her to make a confusing point about consent.

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Swiss artist Milo Moiré is bringing her public performance piece"Mirror Box" to cities all over Europe, and even in that sexually uninhibited continent, people are getting weirded out. In her piece, Moiré wears a mirrored box in place of either her shirt or skirt, which features a hole cut out in the front, obscured with a curtain. With a megaphone, she invites any and all passersby to reach in and feel whatever they find there (her breasts and vagina) for 30 seconds. And while to a prudish American it might seem like a pervy peep show, Moiré knows exactly what she's doing—she's making a point about consent.

This old lady gets it.

According to the description of Moiré's latest YouTube video:

The consensual nature of sexual acts becomes a symbol here. Moiré has additionally taken the liberty of showing female desire, thus giving women a sexual voice. The artist supplements the dominant image of the female body as a mirror of male desire through the transparency of the libidinous black box of woman.

Using her megaphone, she explained the premise of her art piece to all the randos standing around who were waiting to cop a feel:

I am standing here today for women’s rights and sexual self-determination. Women have a sexuality, just like men have one. However, women decide for themselves when and how they want to be touched and when they don’t.

It's a noble sentiment, although from watching her video, it didn't seem like everyone who took part cared why she was doing it.

Warning: the video below is NSFW.

But regardless of whether other people are on board with Moiré's message, she is deeply committed to it. While performing "Mirror Box" in London, she was arrested. She spent 24 hours in jail ("gaol" to those British weirdos) and was issued a four-figure fine. Nevertheless, she remains undeterred. This isn't her first controversial art project, and it's unlikely to be her last. After all, what artist wouldn't want to attract this kind of attention?

VIDEO Mirror Box Performance by Milo Moiré (censored version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTmfbr6cCTU #mirrorbox #london #amsterdam #milomoire #performance #valieexport

Posted by Milo Moire on Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Kris Jenner recounts finding 'evidence' at Nicole Brown Simpson's house after her murder.

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In a deleted scene from Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kris Jenner told the story about how she thought she found a critical piece of evidence in the O.J. Simpson case. It was an honest mistake, but also a scary one to find. It happened when Nicole Brown Simpson's mother asked Jenner to retrieve the children's belongings from their rooms at Nicole's house:

So, I start looking around ... We get to Sydney’s room, and on the four-poster bed ... on two of the posters, there was a handprint, and it was red. I went, ‘I think this is blood,’ so I called Marcia Clark. I go, ‘Oh my God, I’m at Nicole's house, and I think I see blood.’ They had forensic scientists within 30 minutes after we got there, and they did this analysis. She goes, ‘I'm going to call you back as soon as I can.

The forensic scientists quickly sent samples of the handprint to the lab for tests. It turns out it was Jell-O. Little Sydney just left a Jell-O handprint on her bed, like kids do. It's a good thing Sydney wasn't into finger-painting, otherwise the lab could've been flooded testing all sorts of stuff that wasn't blood.

A Bayer ad promoting rape culture is winning awards.

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In "Hmmm" news: an aspirin ad that seemingly hints at nonconsensual videotaped sex just won Bayer's advertising department a major award. Yup. This is that ad, the subtext of which is unfortunately clear:

The print ad, made for Bayer's aspirin brand Aspirina, won a bronze award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. According to AdWeek, Bayer has since ended this campaign.

"We have asked that [the ad agency] BBDO discontinue any further use, dissemination or promotion of this campaign," said a spokesman for Bayer to AdWeek. "The concept was presented to our local marketing team in Brazil by BBDO as one of several campaigns that the agency intended to submit for this year's Cannes Lions festival. In order to meet the requirements for submission to Cannes, BBDO paid for limited placement in Brazil. Bayer has not advertised Aspirin through any channel in Brazil for several years."

But how did any advertising agency think this was a good idea to begin with?

See how 'Game of Thrones' transformed one of the small villages it filmed in.

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If you watch Game of Thrones, you know that the show films in some pretty gorgeous locations. (If you don't watch Game of Thrones, you probably also know that the show films in some pretty gorgeous locations, because information about the show is f*cking everywhere.) The show has filmed in both big and small towns in countries including Ireland, Iceland, Croatia, Morocco, and Spain. YouTube show Seeker Stories recently featured one of these towns, Osuna, Spain, where the unemployment rate was at over 30% before Game of Thrones. Two years after the filming there, the town is still feeling positive effects:

Hopefully one day, all bullfighting rings will be transformed into fantasy dragon-landing pits.

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Disney's original plot for 'Zootopia' was way more depressing.

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The animated family film Zootopia already dealt with some dark themes—racism, drugs, government conspiracies*—but this clip of an old animation storyboard (with voice acting) shows that it was originally heart-wrenching. In the version that made it to theaters, old suspicions still exist between species that were once predators and those that were once prey, but they live in legal equality. In the old version...well, let's just say this is one of the most depressing kids' birthday parties ever put in a cartoon:

That's right, the original version of Zootopia made the title even more of a flat-out lie. In this draft version, predators lived their lives from the time of puberty onwards with a collar that shocked them if they got excited—even if it was from happiness. No wonder sly fox Nick Wilde is always so cool and collected: if he wasn't, he would be physically punished by an all-seeing state.

*A lot of people think the version of Zootopia that reached theaters is an allegory for the old conspiracy theory about the CIA creating crack cocaine to destroy inner cities and justify harsher crime laws. Hooray, Disney!


This lady let her head cyst grow for 20 years before sacrificing it to Dr. Pimple Popper.

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Procrastination is something a lot of people share, but letting a bump grow on the top of your head for 20 years is some real next-level delaying. This woman who came into Dr. Sandra "Pimple Popper" Lee's office did exactly that, and as a result of her long wait, the cyst formed a bone-like shell around itself. Not that there's any reason to judge this woman—having a cyst on your head is a tad embarrassing, and you might hope that a decade or so would be enough for it to clear up.

Full disclosure: although there's lots of good popping action (especially in the first 2 minutes and around 4:45), there's also a fair amount of blood after about 3:30. On the other hand, Dr. Lee also removes the bone-like calcified sac that's developed over decades, and that's pretty neat! Even if it does make your head tingle with panic.

Switzerland is opening its first 'fellatio café.' That's not a pun.

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It's easy to gently make fun of the Swiss, what with their neutrality, their punctuality, their secret banks, clockwork, chocolates and "fellatio cafés." Wait, back up. One of those is not like the other.

One aspect of Swiss pragmatism is that prostitution is legal and sex workers have permits from the government. Any business of two or more sex workers must be a licensed massage parlor—but apparently, massage parlors are also allowed to sell coffee, which is what the company FaceGirl will be doing.

The original Swiss blow job.

FaceGirl will open the country's first "fellatio café" in Geneva by the end of 2016, and it's innovative in more ways than one. Customers come in, pay an upfront fee of 60 Swiss francs (about $62, plus another $5 fee), order a coffee drink and a woman from the same iPad, and then sit at a bar. It must not be a normal bar, though, because you get a blowie while you sit there drinking your coffee.

FaceGirl representative Bradley Chavet told the French newspaper Le Matin that the idea was taken from similar Thai cafés. Chavet further told the paper that unlike more relaxed coffee establishments, he expects men to be in and out of the shop quickly. ''In five or ten minutes, it's all over," he said, which some of his customers would probably half-heartedly claim wasn't true.

As thrilling as it must be to people with dual sex and caffeine addictions, not everyone is pumped that Switzerland will be adding cream to its coffee. Some sex workers' rights organizations suspect the men setting up the business will be the only ones making a profit. And of course, being a barista always sucks.

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Bernie Sanders roasted himself pretty good on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.'

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Bernie Sanders made a pretty good joke about himself on the Friday, June 24 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Once upon a time, Sen. Bernie Sanders ran for the Democratic nomination for President—some say he's still running to this very day (despite saying he's gonna vote for her)

But now he'll settle for appearing on tonight's show. Sadly, he was part of the previous night's show, and whether or not Bernie likes it, the world has moved on. (And in all seriousness, this was a pretty good gag. It's doubtful either of the two presumptive nominees would be this humorous about losing.)

We look forward to your thoughtful, balanced comments.

Kanye West's 'Famous' video is officially the weirdest naked-celebrity mystery on the Internet.

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Love him or hate him, every once in awhile Kanye does something you have to notice—and "Famous," his latest music video, is a super NSFW example of just such a must-see event. Even though his latest album, The Life of Pablo, has been out since Valentine's Day, "Famous" is the only official single and the only video off the album. Although, to say it's a music video of the song would be disingenuous. It's a music video interrupted by 8 minutes of nude celebrity wax figures and at least one if not more actually nude celebrities (heads up: NSFW images below).

Kanye West lies next to Taylor Swift for the whole video and never interrupts her ONCE!

Before we get to the "what," let's clear up the "why." As Kanye himself told Vanity Fair, “It’s not in support or anti any of [the people in the video],” West said. “It’s a comment on fame.” As far as reaction to the video, only Chris Brown has responded publicly (see below​), complaining about his plumber's crack. But West says that when he shows the video to his superstar friends who aren't pictured in it, "They want to be in the bed."

Kanye dared anyone upset by his video in a tweet on Saturday, since deleted:

The magazine had the same question the internet does now, however, noting that West's creation "leaves you guessing as to which of the celebrities are really playing themselves and which are presumably only there by the grace of some advanced prosthetic wizardry."

Please don't let this be one of the real ones.

The video is only available on the streaming service Tidal, except for some versions on Twitter.

Since those will likely not last long, here's a short description: the video begins with grainy VHS-quality images of clouds, followed by short, distorted audio and video snippets from Kanye's controversial life in the public eye—the Taylor Swift moment, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," etc. Then Rihanna starts singing over a camera panning over rumpled sheets. The beat drops, and suddenly the camera shows us the nude figures of Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lying on their stomachs in bed together.

It's unclear what Anna Wintour did to Kanye to deserve ending up between George W. Bush and Donald Trump.

The camera pans rightward across the bed, which is huge. Anna Wintour and Donald Trump are followed by Rihanna, nude on her back, next to her controversial and abusive ex Chris Brown facing away on his stomach. Next to Brown is a naked blonde woman on her back that takes a moment to identify as Taylor Swift (right as Kanye reaches the lyric in the song "I feel like Taylor and me might still have sex").

Up next are Kanye and Kim, the only pair on the bed really facing each other rather than in each other's general direction. Behind Kim, physically and allegorically, is her long-ago sex tape partner Ray J, how she entered the celebrity ranks. Behind him are two other celebrities from their orbit, Amber Rose, and Caitlyn Jenner. All the way on the end, jarringly, is Bill Cosby.

One thing is for sure: this bed looks comfortable.

The music eventually winds down, but the camera continues to pass back and forth over the motionless nudes, until you start to wonder, "wait, are some of those real?!" Clearly, some of the wax figures have air bladders that are used to make them "breathe." But some shots—like what appear to be Caitlyn Jenner's hands—are clearly of humans.

From left: George W. Bush, Anna Wintour, Donald Trump, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Ray J, Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, and Bill Cosby. (Image based on the painting "Sleep" (2008) by Vincent Desiderio​)

Now for me to make my own wild guesses about who is real: There are four prime candidates for realness: Kanye, Kim, Rihanna and Caitlyn. In a second tier are Amber, Anna Wintour* and maybe Ray J. Everyone else is definitely (according to me, a confirmed non-celebrity) wax.

Kanye is real. He turns his head towards the camera at the end, and besides, did you really think he'd let a wax figure stand in for him? Kim is also a likely candidate, as we've all seen her butt plenty of times and this time it's actually for something pretty artsy—specifically, her husband's art. Caitlyn's realness is perhaps the most surprising (she's 66), but here's the thing: of all the figures on the bed, she moves the most. There's a direct shot of what appears to be her hands folding and clasping, and even in the panning parts, she definitely seems to move her hands. Kanye has also been very supportive of Caitlyn, so who knows? He at least put a wax figurine of her nude body in it.

Rihanna and Brown, unlike Kim and Kanye, are the only two who seem to be truly looking away from each other.

Rihanna and Amber seem like they'd support the general themes of this video, but would they show up for his project? Rihanna definitely would, she's singing. Amber probably would, but it would depend on the dynamic of their relationship at the moment. They certainly seem to be breathing at times, and neither would break a sweat at the assignment. Ditto with Ray J, who would probably be thrilled to be invited, but therefore probably wasn't. Anna Wintour gets an asterisk because George Wax Bush is touching her butt and no one would be able to sit still without getting the heebie jeebies from that.

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What do you think? Is it really Kim? Will Taylor Swift murder Kanye West? He warned her about the sex lyrics, so she probably knew this was coming, but still. Was it Caitlyn? What is going on??? Will this mean you have to pay for Tidal?!?!

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Did you know there are gorgeous 'official' posters for every episode of 'Game of Thrones'?

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The 'Beautiful Death' series is a collaboration between HBO and illustrator Robert Ball to create gorgeous stylized posters for every episode. As the name implies, each poster usually focuses on an "iconic death" from that installment. They also include a significant quote from the episode, usually one that's related to the death being depicted.

(S1E9 - Baelor) Fun fact: this moment may be revisited thanks to fan theories about a certain time-traveler.

Some episode posters aren't about a single death, because after all, there are many unnamed ordinary people who have to die on behalf of all these lords and ladies:

(S2E9 - Blackwater) If you include strategy, Tyrion has one of the highest body counts on the show.

They aren't all created by Ball, however. As the site states, "Because so many characters meet an unfortunately fickle fate, this deadly anthology is open to fan submissions as well."

(S3E4 - And Now His Watch Is Ended) This is the most adorable person-melting ever.

With the finale of season 6 airing tonight, June 26, there are more than a few beautiful deaths bound to be added to the pile. To get you ready to bid adieu to someone or other you've come to know and maybe love, here are a few more posters from the series. (Some of these are from Season 6, in case you're not caught up.)

(S3E9 - The Rains of Castamere) This episode will be echoed in the season 6 finale, according to rumors.
(S4E9 - The Watchers On The Wall) If you're noticing a lot of these come from the 9th episode in each season, that's because it's usually the craziest. Usually.
(S6E5 - The Door) Although the saddest episode can strike at any time.
(S6E9 - Battle of the Bastards) As crazy as the 9th episode of season 6 was, the finale is 10 minutes longer and could break the pattern of 9th being the most action-packed.
(S4E8 - The Mountain and The Viper) Just as a reminder to everyone upset about Rickon not zig-zagging that way more beloved characters have died from much dumber mistakes.

See the whole series at BeatifulDeath.com.


Pimples are so hot right now in the fashion world.

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There's one fashion show making a big, oily splash right now: Moto Guo's Spring 2017 line, which Women's Wear Daily described as "nerdy grooming." Except, unlike 99% of brands using the term "nerd," they don't mean "skinny and maybe slightly preppy," they finally mean "unwashed social reject." (Hopefully, this doesn't destroy Dr. Pimple Popper's business.) At last, someone is making fashion for real nerds with B.O. and hard-earned grease of a thousand nights eating pizza bagels alone.

Of course, now the pressure is on to have the perfect pimply face. How can you possibly compete with the acne brought on by the stress and diet of being a model?

Moto Guo SS17 #mfw #motoguo #ss17

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Moto Guo SS17 @marcschulze__ #mfw #motoguo #ss17 #marcschulze

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Pimples are stylish!!! Make up @roberta.betti👏🏻 @maccosmetics #macfamily #macbackstage #motoguo

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Loving this image by Vanni Bassetti ❤️ #backstage #Motoguo #ss17 #picnicinthesociety

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Check out these zitty celebs who didn't even know they were ahead of the curve!

in bed in paris with my acne cream on

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That zit cream in your 30's life. At least I'm not going on the Tonight Show later today. 🙄

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Don't you feel silly now for washing your face?

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The hilarious horror story of Donald Trump's prank campaign coming to life.

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In what could be described as the War Room of parody sketches, "What If Donald Trump Is Just An Elaborate Prank" is the best depiction of what it would be like if everyone's tongue-in-cheek hope—that it was all a joke—were true. In short: it's a Kafkaesque nightmare that's as horrifying for the people inside as those observing, perhaps most of all for Donald. Excellently paced, this is a hilarious reminder that it's really easy to use footage from the past year as a horror movie.

Is this the simplest unprovable math problem ever?

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Everyone loves brain teasers, but especially deceptively simple ones (deceptively-full-of-calculus problems aren't very fun) that are so intuitive, first graders often outperform adults—but what about ones mathematicians can't solve? The "3X+1 Problem," aka the "Collatz Conjecture," drives mathematician so bonkers it once was thought to be a Soviet plot to distract scientists from their work.

Anyone with a solid grasp of addition, division, multiplication can try it and anyone can see it in action—but no one can explain it, prove it, or disprove it. Tipping Point Math demonstrates it in this video, "The Simplest Impossible Problem," but a written explanation will be attempted below.

You start with a positive whole number and follow two simple rules: if the number is even, divide it by two; if the number is odd, multiply by three and add one.

After doing that, you apply the same rules to the result of the first number. So, if we start with 10, the next number is 5. Then you apply the rules again, this time applying the odd number rule (3N+1) to get 16. Divide by two for eight, again for four, again for two, and finally for one.

Now here's the thing. One is an odd number. So, multiply it and add one to get four. But we've already seen what happens to four: it becomes two, which becomes one, and the cycle repeats, endlessly: 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1....forever.

All numbers, literally every single positive whole number, eventually spirals down into a repeating 4, 2, 1 sequence. Every positive whole number reduces to one following these rules.

The quickest are powers of two. As the video points out, 8192 is two to the thirteenth power. It takes thirteen steps, dividing by two the whole time, to reach one. Other, much smaller numbers take much longer roads to get to one, sometimes ballooning to much larger figures.

The number 27, for example, not only takes 110 steps, but reaches far higher than 2^13 on its road to eventually crashing back towards one. Here's a graph showing the results of using 27 as a starting number.

Supercomputers have tested this all the way out to 5 x 2^60 (5,764,607,500,000,000,000ish) and found no examples of integers that don't eventually reduce to a 4, 2, 1 sequence. But because the number set is infinite, that doesn't prove such a number doesn't exist. If you think you've got the perfect 19-digit number, you can enter it at the Collatz Calculator to win a fabulous prize: worldwide mathematical fame. (Seriously, though, it's pretty fun when you enter an absurd number that takes 1566 steps and the website tells you it's the first time that number has ever been tried.)

Someone turned all of 'Game of Thrones' so far into a Black Sabbath video to get you hyped.

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This video has somehow survived three days on YouTube despite being a combination of (beautifully-oversaturated) Game of Thrones footage and Black Sabbath's epic War Pigs. And thank goodness the copyright gods have seen fit to look the other way, because it serves as an excellent vehicle for hype-ification before tonight's big finale. If you need something to jazz up your Thrones viewing party, consider putting this on to get ready for the main event. (Brief NSFW nudity.)

Here's a recap of Episode 9 to get you even more hyped:

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Posted by Someecards on Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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