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'Human Barbie' says she doesn't need plastic surgery to look like a toy.

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Valeria Lukyanova, a Ukranian woman famous for resembling woman-shaped hunk of plastic Barbie, did an interview with Too Fab to set the record straight on some misconceptions people may have about her. If you are not familiar with Lukyanova, she is an actual, breathing human person who has similar proportions to Barbie. Take that, people who think Barbie doesn't reflect real women's bodies!

In the interview, Lukyanova says that one of the biggest misconceptions about her is that she had a bunch of "plastic surgeries" to look like a doll (why would people ever think that?). Although she doesn't outright deny having had plastic surgery already, she does say she would be open to it in the future to preserve her figure.

Maybe this interview is so bizarre because of the language barrier, or maybe because she literally whips out a fan and randomly starts fanning herself mid-interview with a man she refuses to make eye contact with. Well, despite it all, she definitely seems to have more going on than meets the eye (literally her one eye—the other one was covered by her hair the entire time.)


Miss Teen USA will no longer focus primarily on ogling teenage bodies in swimsuits.

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The swimsuit portion of the Miss Teen USA competition, a portion that in hindsight maybe never should have existed in the first place, is officially extinct. According to USA Today, instead of swimsuits, the teen beauty queens will now be modeling athletic wear for the judges. Sorry, Miss Teen USA contestants, you will have to wait a few more years to be objectified in the swimsuit portion of adult pageants.

Guess they will have to rely on their other assets.

Miss Universe Organization president Paula Shugart wrote in a memo to state pageant directors that they are eliminating the swimsuit competition to "evolve in ways that celebrate women’s strength, confidence and beauty for years to come." She goes on to say:

This decision reflects an important cultural shift we’re all celebrating that empowers women who lead active, purposeful lives and encourage those in their communities to do the same. Our hope is that this decision will help all of Miss Teen USA’s fans recognize these young women for the strong, inspiring individuals they are.

Though staring at young girl's bodies is practically a creepy national pastime at this point, the change has largely been celebrated by body positive activists who believe that if you are going to be standing on a stage and judged, it should be on more than how you look in a bathing suit. Connie Sobczak, the co-founder and executive director of the organization The Body Positive, applauded the organization's decision, noting “This is a step forward in honoring girls as strong and capable rather than simply as objects at which to stare.”

Besides the inevitable onslaught of yoga pants that are going to be worn at this year's Miss Teen USA pageant, there have been many changes to the entire beauty pageant circuit in recent years. Miss America is celebrating their first openly gay contestant this year, while the Miss USA crown recently went to an officer in the Army. The Miss World pageant recently traded their "bikini competition" for a "beachwear show" competition (even though we all know girls in sarongs don't win crowns.)

Just keeping it real.

Sure, pageants still judge women on a narrow standard of beauty and put a huge emphasis on physical appearance rather than other valuable attributes that women may possess, but let's take what we can get at this point.

Judi Dench got her first tattoo at 81 and it's as awesome as she is.

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Dame Judi Dench recently received a tattoo as a gift from her daughter, Finty, for her 81st birthday. It simply says her favorite phrase, "carpe diem," on her right wrist. After a distinguished acting career that includes work with the National Theatre Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and an Academy Award, it's clear she's already seized many days.

She told Surrey Life that the gift was a surprise:

That's my motto: Seize the day. Finty gave it to me for my 81st birthday. She's wonderful with surprises.

The first reveal of her new ink was at gala in June, where she was speaking with The Earl of Wessex:

She also had fun with some temporary 007 bling on her left shoulder, since she became internationally famous for her role as "M" in the James Bond films. Here's a closer look at the new tat:

Dame Judi Dench never ceases to amaze. Anyone hesitant to get a tattoo? You can now look to her as inspiration that it's never too late.

Good Gal Rihanna sent pizza and towels to fans waiting out in the rain.

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BadGalRiRi knows that when the sun shines we shine together, and when it doesn't, we get caught in the rain. As fans in Manchester, UK lined up all day to see her ANTI World Tour, the rain was pouring down, so Rihanna sent them pizza to make sure they had the energy to twerk to "Work."

The best pizza is free-zza.

The pizza even looks pretty good: that's a fine amount of cheese.

To try and one-up the pizza surprise during the concert itself, Rih brought out Drake.

Your move, Formation World Tour.

Ariel Winter promises her bubble bath Instagram is not illegal.

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Recent high school graduate Ariel Winter has a better life than you, as made evident by her awesome boobs and Instagram pictures. Combining those two things, the 18-year-old recently uploaded this picture of herself in a swimming pool-sized bubble bath, alongside the caption, "Today's office...relax everyone it's cranberry juice and I'm wearing lady bit pasties. #DogYears#set#movie."

Today's office...relax everyone it's cranberry juice and I'm wearing lady bit pasties. #DogYears #set #movie

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Being born in 1998, Winter knows that you simply can't sit in a bubble bath—for work or otherwise—without showing the whole internet. The photo's from the set of the upcoming Dog Years, which will star Winter alongside Burt Reynolds and Kathleen Nolan. Reynolds plays an "aging, former movie star...forced to face the reality that his glory days are far behind him."

Will Winter play his girlfriend? Hopefully not!

You can be jealous for a minute that she is referring to a bubble bath as her "office," but take comfort in the fact that you would never want to see your coworkers in a bathtub, covered in conveniently placed bubbles to hide their "bits." Maybe her life isn't at glamorous as it seems. Wait. Nah. It is.

Beyoncé's trainer reveals the surprisingly simple workout routine that gives her those nutso thighs.

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Marco Borges is the personal trainer for Beyoncé, and he recently revealed the workout that got her ready for her Formation World Tour. It takes an incredible amount of strength and cardio to dance and sing like Beyoncé night after night. Borges recommends trying the workout three times a week for six weeks in order to see results (or realize you can't keep this up). It combines basic elements of workouts you've probably seen before.

Up Your Energy.

Beyoncé boxes and swings heavy ropes. (If you need a boxing tutorial, check out her sister Solange Knowles punching Jay Z in an elevator.)

Run Faster.

Marco says that "sprints are ideal for building stamina and explosiveness, which B needs to move across the stage." He has her do a one-minute sprint followed by two minutes of brisk walking for 30 minutes in total.

Build Strength.

Kettle bell squats. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, holding a dumbbell at your chest, elbows tucked in at the sides. Squat down until your elbows touch your knees. 4 sets of 15 reps.

Here are some other parts of Bey's routine that Borges didn't bother to mention:

Throw Shade at Becky.

Throwing lots of heavy shade at designers who make a move on your man helps blast your upper arms. When done properly, it also engages your core.

Release Lemonade.

Creating an album that debuts at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 releases endorphins and helps focus mental energy towards building that perfect Bey body.

That's all it takes. Focus on high-intensity and interval cardio and strength-training. Then mix in being one of the most talented and popular pop artists in the world. You should see results in six weeks.

@weareivypark

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Gwyneth Paltrow reacts to that time 'Star' named her their 'Most Hated' celebrity.

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During an interview with Stephen Sackur at Cannes Lion, Gwyneth Paltrow talked about Star magazine naming her the Most Hated celebrity in 2013 (weeks after People named her the World's Most Beautiful Woman): "First of all I was like, 'I'm the most hated celebrity?' More than, like, Chris Brown? What did I do?"

Yes, more than Chris Brown, who came in at number 20. Twenty! True, this was four years after he beat up Rihanna, but come on. He beat up Rihanna.

"I see where you are coming from, but maybe you just make people feel bad sometimes," Sackur suggested.

@goop instant facial is my everything. Can't. Live. Without. #goopcleangoop

A video posted by Gwyneth Paltrow (@gwynethpaltrow) on

Paltrow does have a special talent for annoying people, and she makes it nearly impossible for people not to make fun of her, with her lifestyle blog and whatnot, but Chris Brown assaulted his girlfriend. Paltrow hawked expensive beauty products; Brown punched a guy and used a gay slur. She married the guy from Coldplay; Chris Brown threw a tantrum and, consequently, a chair through a window in a dressing room at Good Morning America​.

Gwyneth swears that she doesn't mean to make people hate her. You guys, seriously, no joke, she cannot help it. She's just…so Gwyneth. But she's not hurting anyone. Figuratively OR literally. She told Sackur:

All I can do is be my authentic self, and if you know me, then you know who I am, and that I have fun and eat and am so appreciative for my life. But I think there are things about me that make people draw conclusions. . . So the idea that I am spoiled or that I didn't work for what I have, that's just not accurate. But I can see how somebody might have that perception. . . People tend to think that I eat just seaweed and a bit of air. I have never had a horrible experience with French fries. French fries are my life!

Ahhh summer. Schools out. Vodka on a weeknight. @svedkavodka #summerwithsvedka

A photo posted by Gwyneth Paltrow (@gwynethpaltrow) on

French fries are your life? All right, slow down, Paltrow—you may not really be the "most hated celebrity," but there's no way you're ever going to attain "relatable."

Khal Drogo had some thoughts on Daenerys' latest love interest.

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No matter who Khaleesi gets with in the future, everyone can pretty much agree that her romance with Khal Drogo was the most ship-worthy in the history of Game of Thrones. Even though Khal Drogo is dead and gone, he is always looking over his Khaleesi—no, not from heaven or wherever, but from his messy apartment on a flat screen TV. Jason Momoa, who played the sexy Khal, continues to support his TV-wife via his Instagram account. Ugh, they're still the best.

Melisandre, you couldn't do anything about this?

Looks like Momoa doesn't approve of Daenerys's relationship with Daario, because when she dumped him, Momoa uploaded this picture of his TV screen with the caption, "DROGO says fuck that punk​." Jealous?

DROGO says fuck that punk

A photo posted by Jason Momoa (@prideofgypsies) on

Then, during the awesome final moments of the season finale that saw Daenerys riding at the helm of her huge fleet, Momoa posted this picture with the sweet but violent caption, "The world is yours baby kill em all." Awww.

The world is yours baby kill em all

A photo posted by Jason Momoa (@prideofgypsies) on

It looks like Momoa has been watching along all season, and he definitely seems to have a favorite character. Guess who.

There is probably some bias there, though.

KD & DT 4ever.

Naked man in Times Square jumps off a building because of Donald Trump.

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​Wesley Ahlgren summoned thousands of viewers on Perisocope this morning to watch "Naked guy on Times Square." It was the suspenseful drama of a 21-year-old man, surrounded by police, standing naked atop the TKTS building, ranting about Donald Trump, and threatening to jump.

All this, and we are technically still in the primaries.

At first, it seemed like garden variety NYC shenanigans, with the man dancing around. In the video you can hear people in the cafe are laughing at him and the comments on periscope are all "likes" and "nices," but this man was disturbed.

Specifically, he was terrified about an impending Trump presidency. Mohamed Adam, a smoothie cart who witnessed everything told Gothamist the Manhattan man kept yelling, "No no no Trump!"

Gothamist reports a witness says the incident started around 7:15 a.m. The man neatly took his clothes off at the street level and left them in a folded pile. That's when 'Times Square Alliance security told him to put his clothes on, but the man ran up the stairs to the ledge above the TKTS booth."

The man began spitting at police and threatening to jump off the ledge. Police put a inflated bag beneath the ledge, but the man threatened to aim himself for the pavement instead.

"hahahahha" - some idiot on Periscope

Despite police efforts to "establish a dialogue" with the man, the man ran across the ledge and jumped.

Terrifyingly, the man intentionally missed the airbag and landed on the pavement. He sustained minor injuries and was rushed to Bellevue for a psychiatric evaluation.

"I'm chuckling" - another Periscope idiot

Ahlgren's footage comes in three parts, here we have them posted chronologically:

Iggy Azalea discovered details of Nick Young cheating from security cameras, 'E!' news.

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After all the cheating rumors and cheating confirmations,"Fancy" rapper Iggy Azalea found out that her fiancé got another girl pregnant in the least "Fancy" way. Young's ex-girlfriend is allegedly four months pregnant with his baby after a drunken evening together. And the worst part is, Azalea found out about it on the internet, just like you are right now.

While she's not sure about the pregnancy, she's certainly sure about the cheating.

A scene from her reaction video.

She rounds out the rant with the truest thing she's ever said.

It's a painful situation—maybe it will inspire a good song.

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Most patient dad ever sends his daughter video about what he found in her sock drawer.

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On June 22, a 16-year-old girl from Texas going by the name Elainey on Twitter posted a video her father sent her after finding something slightly inappropriate in her sock drawer while she was apparently on a trip to "the coast." The video is so funny that it's now been retweeted almost 10,000 times. This has to be one of the silliest/most reasonable dads to ever dad.

No word on why he was looking through her sock drawer, but he was either putting her laundry away, snooping, or in desperate need of a teenage girl's socks. In any case, he found something not at all sock-related.

It doesn't seem like he's too mad—he manages a really nice "Hey, girl" and tells her it looks like she's having fun on her trip in the beginning, before getting into the real reason for his video:

Hey, when you get home, I'd like to talk you about this. I don't know if this was something that fell out of a sock, because it was in your sock drawer. We heard a news report of people breaking into houses and hiding whiskey bottles so if that's the case, we need to contact the police. But if you've got another explanation, maybe you could explain it to us when you get home. Love you, girl! Bye!

It's really too bad about the criminals doing B&Es just to leave liquor in people's houses. That's creepy and not okay. What is the world even coming to?

Constipated guy discovers the worst way to use a disposable enema, with horrific results.

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A Reddit tale in the mostly mortifying "Today I F*cked Up" subreddit revolves around an enema, a hot car, and a very, very uncomfortable man. An enema is an intestinal cleanse, in case you're lucky enough not to know. You shoot some water into your butt to—quoting enemabag.com here—"stimulate peristalsis throughout the full length of the colon."

This translates roughly to: it makes you poop. If you have a question about how to use an enema, follow this helpful guide: Do. Not. Guess.

This is what happens when you guess at enema best practices.

This happened a few years ago. Took a vacation to Nicaragua and ate a ton of unpasteurized cheese (a free traditional breakfast was available every morning at the hotel, and I was travelling on a budget). I was relying on my usually bulletproof stomach to see me safely to shore, and, for a time, everything seemed fine.

Not the exact cheese, but would probably have a similar effect.

After I got back, I slowly realized that it had been quite a while since my last poo. Took some laxatives, which only made me much more uncomfortable. After almost a week, I was getting desperate, so I ran by Walgreens and bought a disposable enema.

Here's where I fucked up, although I didn't realize it at the time. I bought the enema on my lunch break and left it in the car until I got off of work. It was about 100 degrees outside that day. When I got home I noticed that the enema felt pretty hot to the touch, but, thanks to incredibly flawed reasoning, I deduced that the closer the saline was to 100 degrees (my internal body temperature) the more comfortable it would be. I got into the tub (in case of spillage), inserted the pre-lubricated nozzle, and gave the bulb a firm squeeze. It was at this exact moment that I realized the unfathomable degree to which I had fucked up. It felt like I had inserted a fire hose full of microwaved lava into my bowels. Like the grown-ass man that I am, I screamed at a frequency audible only to bats, thrashed around like a spider on a skillet, and fell over into the tub. The silver lining is that it cured my constipation with extreme agency. I shat out a week's worth of hot saline and Nicaraguan cheese poops, the force of the expulsion causing me to rotate slowly in the bottom of the tub like a rocket with a bent nozzle.

After it was all over, I felt like I had re-enacted the suppository scene from Trainspotting with my entire body. My bootyhole (and regions beyond) hurt considerably for a day or two, although I was too relieved to be able to poop again to care. Also, I had to throw the shower curtain and an extremely unfortunate loofah away.

TL;DR: Hot enema ≠ comfortable enema

Lesson learned: 100 degree water does not a soothing enema make.

The comments section mainly vacillated between "you idiot" and "hey try this prune juice concoction instead next time!" If you're legitimately scarred by the above story and interested in that concoction, redditor ChewyChavezill prescribes "4-6oz of warm prune juice and 1 dose of Milk of Magnesia [that] will cure constipation almost without fail."

It's apparently referred to as a "Purple Cow," and Chewy claims to be a nurse, so that's that. Constipation solved.

Joy-hating FDA gives us another reason not to eat raw cookie dough.

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The FDA released a warning against eating raw cookie dough for a scary-sounding new reason. Traditionally, warnings about eating raw cookie dough were because of the potential for salmonella in raw eggs. But there is apparently another danger that could be present even if the dough does not contain raw eggs (nice try, vegans).

The warning is in response to an outbreak of E. coli in flour. 38 people in 20 states have become ill as a result of the bacteria, which is called "Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O121." Despite sounding like a newly discovered planet, this is an earthly bacteria and dangerous enough to result in an FDA warning.

Here's the full warning per The New York Times:

Investigations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the F.D.A. traced the source of the outbreak to flour that was produced in November 2015 at the General Mills facility in Kansas City, Mo. General Mills has issued a voluntary recall of 10 million pounds of flour produced between Nov. 14 and Dec. 4, sold under three brand names: Gold Medal, Signature Kitchens and Gold Medal Wondra. Flour that is part of the recall should be thrown away.

What did mommy say about Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O121?

You can read the recall from General Mills here. In the meantime, those participating in sleepovers and getting over bad breakups should eat an entire tub of ice cream instead of cookie dough.

11 sex toys from the Nightmare Dimension.

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You can buy nearly anything online these days, and there are always lots of customer reviews to help inform your purchases. This includes sex toys, and there are all sorts of weird sex toys out there. Lots of people experiment with kinky sex toys. Some of them happen to be serious online shoppers who leave a whole bunch of hilarious reviews on Amazon.

1. Doc Johnson Belladonna's Magic Hand

This is terrifying. If a sex toy bends it makes sense, but saying it "runs away" sounds like it came to life and tried to escape the horror it was about to experience. If a sex toy tries to run away from you, just let it go.

2. Pamvia Waterproof Handheld Wireless Vibrating Personal Massager

Fortune favors the bold, but it also sends them to the hospital. The best part about this review and product is that this personal massager isn't even necessarily a sex toy.

3. SLAVE Steel DELUXE 15.5" Spreader Bar With Strict PVC Leather HANDCUFFS CUFFS ~ RESTRAINTS WITH PADLOCKS

How on earth would you use novelty sex slave handcuffs for something else?

4. Meili bondage Restraints Fetish Fantasy Series Position Master with Cuffs

It sounds like RocketMan might be using this thing incorrectly with his wife, as the image shows nothing going in the model's mouth. But congrats to him on not having a "skinny pole."

5. OptiSex Satin Love Double Strap Blindfold Eye Mask

That's an excellent point. A satin blindfold could make for excellent naps. There's nothing in the rule book that says you have to use this product for kinky sex.

6. Edible Thong - Strawberry And Chocolate

The war against gluten has made it all the way to edible underwear. As for the full nutritional value of an edible thong, yes, there are more likely healthier snacks out there.

7. VSVO Men's Mankini Swimsuit Thong

Was the gym teacher pleasantly surprised or angrily surprised? That's an important distinction. That thong probably dissolves the second water touches it, so hopefully he didn't get in the pool.

8. Luxury Heavy Duty Indoor Swing w/ Steel Triangle Frame and Spring

Wow, let's hope she's OK. Sustaining injuries from a sex swing will put a quick end to an evening of trying to spice things up in the ole' marriage.

9. Fetish Bondage System Couple Connected Anal's Plug Kit with Tail

Notice how is says "anal plug?" Also the rating system is out of five, so it looks like Chris was trying to give half a star. Chris doesn't know how anal plugs or Amazon reviews work.

10. PicoBong TANO 2 Premium-Grade Silicone Vibrating Butt Plug

They bought the product, they can use it however they want (and give us this hilarious review for our enjoyment). Hopefully they exclusively use it just for coffee, and not additionally for its intended purpose.

11. Moonight 32-foot 10m Long Soft Cotton Rope

This reviewer probably means that the delivery of the product was quick, but you never can tell. Either way it's a satisfied customer.

Some of these reviewers sound like pros, some sound like amateurs, and some were just having some fun with the Internet (and themselves). Whatever the case, be careful, do your research, then leave a hilarious review for everyone to enjoy.


Lovelorn humans shared heartbreaking stories of the one that got away.

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Because the universe is a cruel and heartless place, true love doesn’t always work out. Mistakes are made, connections are missed, and years later, people realize that their perfect partner was the one they let slip through their fingers. Here are some redditors who opened up about their great lost loves.

1. McGooYou wanted to see if there were other fish in the sea, which is not an apt metaphor because actual fisherman call it a day after they’ve caught the perfect fish.

Well, first she had all the "usual" good traits: pretty, intelligent, fun/spontaneous, emotionally stable, job, great sex life, I liked her friends, we had some (but not all) similar interests, and she absolutely adored me.

Bigger still is that I trusted her unconditionally and I had a ton of respect for her as a person. Also, I don't recall ever having a real argument with her. We may have disagreed on things, but talked and got over it in minutes.

I left her because I was 20, she was one of the first girls that was my "girlfriend," and I wanted to see what else was out there (I had lots of options at that age). Little did I know as a naive 20-year-old that it wouldn't be easy finding other relationships of that quality.

2. This deleted user’s story has multiple kinds of tragedy in it—a little something for everyone.

He was a friend of mine, and we both loved British fiction and had the same caustic sense of humor and introverted personality. I think we were kind of liking each other, but another guy got to me first, and I ended up in a serious relationship with him...he turned out to be a heroin addict. My friend, on the other hand, became a relatively famous musician, and committed suicide several years later.

3. IronTeach was a dum-dum, but at least he realizes he was a dum-dum.

My girlfriend who I had been with for 2 years and I were having a small argument and I decided that we should go on a "break," which in my mind meant, "HEY! YOU BETTER REALIZE HOW STUPID YOU'RE BEING!" Yet, as most people who think this usually are, I was the one being stupid. A couple days later, some guy asked her out, I was jealous and wanted her back, but being a prideful guy at that point in my life, I suggested she go. Well, he was a better guy than me apparently who wouldn't argue about dumb things. They're now married with two kids and I have never again treated a girl with that kind of pompousness and irrationality. Obviously things weren't the greatest, but her getting away helped me realize how immature I was and I've grown from that.

4. neontribegirl met her lost love at Burning Man, which she remembers somehow even though it all went down at Burning Man.

I was at Burning Man. He was from Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was tall and he had the most gorgeous smile. As he walked towards me, I was freaking out on the inside.

After my day of work, I went with him to his camp and met his friends. We talked and laughed all day. We kept looking at each other and smiling. We took some mushrooms and sat near the temple and watched the sunset. He turned towards me and asked "If in another universe, we had met while living in the same country, would you go out with me?" I smiled and said yes. He asked why. I told him because he was the most honest man I have met. He was so kind, it was refreshing. I asked him the same question and he said yes too. We smiled some more. We spent 4 days hanging out with each other, sharing stories, exploring the playa. It was beautiful. He was beautiful. Nothing happened between us. He had a girlfriend and I respected that. I guess that why he liked me even more. When he left, he gave me a teddy bear and a note that said "Shame about the timing" He was the one that got away. Because of the timing. Because of where we lived. Because our paths were meant to intertwine only for those four days. He was the one that got away. And I know I will never see him again no matter how much I travel the world. But to me, that is the beauty of this entire experience. No follow up. No "we just fell out of touch." It is the beauty in knowing it will never happen again and I will remember how he made me feel forever.

5. MorganFreemanRIP was in love with a girl who wanted him to be her gay BFF and her brother, but unfortunately he was heterosexual and had different parents than she did.

We were best friends.

She wanted me to be her gay friend, I wasn't gay but totally in love with her. We hung out at her house several days a week and in school, and for whatever reason she ended up getting married and it broke my heart.

I told her how I felt when I discovered she was engaged, shit got weird and she said I was like a brother to her. We never spoke after that.

6. It’s all in the timing, FlareCorran.

Back in school, there was a girl that I was in a club with and we actually worked together to plan several programs. Prettiest girl I've ever actually known. Wonderful personality and I suspect she liked me too. Finally, a couple friends convince me that I should ask her out, rather than putting it off.

Unfortunately, the night I was going to do it, I overhear her saying that she's been set up on a date with a guy from Chicago that Friday (when I was planning to have dinner) so I didn't do anything. Figured hey, she's just been set up, it's not a big deal, I'll ask her later. She was engaged to him within a year and married not long after.

Yes, this is my fault. But it's been my encouragement to actually try and do better on this, because I had two months of waffling where I saw her one or two times every week before I actually got up the courage to ask her out.

7. This deleted user didn’t want to lock it down when his girlfriend wanted to lock it down, so things didn’t get locked down.

I let her go. She was wife-material right off the bat and took care of me and was very very pretty and nice. A great personal all-around. But she was ready for the comfortable life of being in a long relationship; seeing close friends 50% as much (if that), early nights in, crafts like knitting and baking, etc. I was 18 or 19 and felt I had way too much I hadn't experienced yet and couldn't do so the way things were going. She was madly in love with me, and though I loved her as well and she was my best friend, I did not feel as though I loved her back in the same way or was able to give the same comforts she gave me. She was perfect for me 6 years from then. So I let her go.

8. The one that got away for DrawerFullOfDicks is the one who identified himself thusly.

We were friends with benefits but he never made any indication he was interested in me. He moved to Europe, sent me a message with a picture of himself at the Eiffel Tower telling me how I was the one who got away and how much he missed me. He got engaged 3 months later to someone else, they are starting a happy little Swedish family while I sit in my apartment in the southeast sadly masturbating. It's a good life.

9. User menace64 never got a reason why his true love dumped him, but the one-night-stand that ended in pregnancy might be a clue.

Met her, and it was the first time (and since then, the only time) that I had that feeling of rightness. I still don't believe in love at first sight but there was certainly a deep, pulling attraction.

As far as I was concerned, the search was over.

We were together for less than a year: a great year, the best relationship I could ever hope to have. But she came into it with a habit of cheating, and just couldn't get a handle on it. I worked with her - perhaps I was too easygoing; love eased my heart, I think - but one night she got drunk, slept with a dude, and got herself knocked up.

She never even told me why she dumped me. It just happened, and really I'm not even entirely over it, or her. Maybe I'll never be. Maybe that's what love feels like.

10. Fearnotmonkey’s lesson here is that you should never giving dating advice to someone you’re in love with if it doesn’t involve dating you.

Meeting a girl with EXACTLY the same, personality, humor, interests and outlook on life as myself and becoming instantly head over heels. I find out she was in the early stages of seeing someone so I just became friends with her (all while thinking she's the most amazing girl I've ever met but such is life). We go on a college trip to Venice and after an evening drinking and end up cuddled up on her bed chatting (other people were in the room I should mention), the topic of the guy she is seeing comes up and how she feels it's not working and how, and I quote, "I wish he was more like you". Unfortunately my drunken mind just wants to help out amazing fantastic girl so I proceed to give her the best advice ever on how to solve the problems they'd been having getting things started.

Two days after being home from Venice I get a text saying "Your advice worked! we worked everything out and are officially together now!!" I banged my head on my desk rather hard that evening.

11. madsplatter forgot about the one that got away until he ran into her.

Yes. I saw her at the grocery store the other day and it totally caught me off guard. I forgot how hard I fell for her. I don't even think I'm capable of falling that hard anymore. She ruined me. It's like I had a cup full of love and she drank most of it and didn't put any love back into the cup and now I just have less love.

12. This story from Omphile would be incredibly romantic and poignant in a movie, but it happened in real life so instead it’s just excruciatingly heartbreaking.

I met her at an airport in Johannesburg, we had amazing conversation, she said she was going to Chicago. I never had the chance to get her name, phone number, or Facebook details. I know I'll never forget this one.

13. The_catacombs had heard “If you love somebody, set them free,” but didn’t think you had to follow up.

On a vacation, she stayed out past 3am with her girlfriends at the beach. I had spent an hour trying to make sure she was at least okay... everyone had been drinking a lot. A call and several texts were ignored. I went to bed. She stumbled in at some point and climbed in bed.

Next morning, I asked if she had fun. I also said I'd been worried. She said she wasn't sure she wanted to keep being serious. I said okay and got a ride home with a friend and his girl. I forced myself for half a year to not try to get her back.

I find out a few years later that I should've fought for it. A mutual acquaintance told me that my ex was very disappointed and sad that I let go like I did. She apparently wanted to see that I'd fight to make it work, but I thought it was best to let her live her life as she wanted, and thought she'd say something if that included me. I was wrong, and now we're separated by the sea. I still love her - she is one of a kind. Sadly I don't believe she feels the same now - I wish I could talk to her and ask, I'd move everything to get another chance.

She was the best friend I should've married.

14. To make sure you’re not a heap of tears and sadness on the floor, this story from Solsed shows that sometimes the one who got away comes back.

Well I had this insane crush on this guy in highschool. I crushed hard like I would get butterflies just thinking about him. This went on for years, even after he moved to a different school.

A decade later we reconnected on Facebook, grabbed dinner, just to catch up, hadn't seen each other in years.

Ended up staying out until two in the morning, just sitting by the river chatting and pretty much just falling in love.

We've been together two years now and couldn't be happier.

I'm so glad that we happened when we did, we had enough life experience to work out what we did and didn't like and it turns out that we fit absolutely perfectly together. :)

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The reason stuntwomen have a more dangerous job than stuntmen.

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Being a stuntwoman is considerably more dangerous than being a stuntman, respected Hollywood stuntwoman Tammie Baird​told the Guardian. As if falling off buildings and being thrown through windshields wasn't hard enough to begin with, consider the fact that stuntwomen are often wearing skimpy clothing that doesn't allow for the safety padding worn by their male counterparts. For example, it's pretty hard to pull off bulky kneepads in a mini skirt, as Baird learned when she took her first stunt role as a double in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Baird was mentored by New Zealand's Dayna Grant, who was Charlize Theron's stunt double in both Fury Road and Snow White and the Huntsmen. Grant says the extra pain stuntwomen endure doesn't get in the way of her job. "It’s just what needs to be done for film. It’s not life-threatening; it just hurts a lot more."

Grant had a pretty nasty accident herself, caused by a pair of "feminine" shoes without traction. "They were very slippery, feminine shoes. I slipped on a hill and I got impaled by a dagger, through my head. I ended up going into cardiac arrest and I was a bit of a mess." Nowadays in her role of stunt coordinator, Grant always makes sure her crew have shoes they can comfortably work in, or else they're given special footwear.

Another thing that stuntwomen have to contend with that stuntmen (typically) don't is weight—since the stuntwomen are often doubling for stars that are very thin, they sometimes have to lose weight for the roles. The problem with that is they still have to retain muscle, due to the amount of strength needed to pull the stunts off safely. Baird says, "If we lose our muscle tone then we’re no good to the actress."

Melanie Wise, founder of the Artemis Women in Action film festival, toldThe Guardian: "All the stuntwomen I’ve personally met are beautifully built. They’re athletic, they’re muscular, but they don’t look like women on steroids. They’re very fit and trim, and I’m sitting here thinking: 'OK, they want them to be thinner?'"

Then there's the problem of the sexism inherent in the industry. Perhaps it's not as relevant anymore (fingers crossed!), but in 1988, during the filming of Back To The Future 2's infamous hoverboard scene, an accident that could have been prevented nearly cost stuntwoman Cheryl Wheeler her life. And while it's not fair to put the whole incident under the umbrella category of "sexism," the stuntwoman's concerns weren't taken seriously by the stunt coordinator or the special effects team member responsible for cutting the wires from which the stuntpeople were hanging.

Caseen Gaines wrote a whole chapter about the hoverboard scene in her book We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy. On the day of the shoot, stuntwoman Cheryl Wheeler was apprehensive, and questioned stunt coordinator Walter Scott and special effects guy Greg Tippie about some aspects of the stunt. Her questions were blown off, and she was told if she was too scared, there was a man ready to take her place.

"Are you sure all the marks are right from the other day? How are you sure everything is exactly the same?"

The stunt coordinator looked at her with an odd mixture of compassion and exasperation in his eyes. "Cheryl, you’re getting cold feet." She could feel her back stiffening. "I’m going to put Charlie [Croughwell] in your clothes and let him do the stunt."

This is the actual hoverboard stunt from Back to the Future 2.

So Wheeler went ahead it with it, despite her better judgment.

Inside, the rest of her team knew something had gone awry. "When we landed, we had to keep our eyes closed, because of the raining breakaway glass," Gary Morgan says. "I was way in the corner, right next to the camera where Cheryl should’ve been. I opened my eyes and I said, 'Where’s Cheryl?' and somebody pointed outside. I got up and Cheryl was laying on the concrete and the pool of blood by her head was getting bigger. I thought she was dead. It was quite a moment, because you prepare for the worst in any stunt, but it just went wrong and nobody expected it to."

Except that's not exactly true: Cheryl Wheeler might not have expected it to, but she was certainly aware it could happen and very concerned. But no one would listen to her. She returned to the set three or four weeks later, after getting out of the hospital, to find that she'd been replaced.

One good thing for stuntwomen, though, is that they do get paid the same rate as their male counterparts. In New Zealand, women actually get paid more than men, because their lack of comparable protection is taken into account (a few stunt coordinators in other places, including Armstrong, do this, too).

Hopefully there will continue to be more women doing more stunts in movies, proving that women are just as good at things like hanging on to the hood of a moving car for dear life.

Someone found an old yearbook photo of a young Obama protesting homework.

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How's this for a throwback Thursday—today on Reddit someone posted an image that they said is from their dad's elementary school yearbook, and it shows a cute l'il Barack Obama going on strikeagainst homework. Community organizers, am I right?

Apparently, this was from a Hawaiian yearbook, not a Kenyan one.

From left to right, the signs apparently read "Strike," "We strike," "Boys liberation," and "No homework."

His teachers probably thought he was just an okay student until he was set to graduate, at which point they realized he was better than all the other students around him and was just given a bum curriculum.

Commenters were quick to note, "We still have homework though. Thanks, Obama."

The actress who plays Melisandre tweeted the most (in)appropriate farewell gift ever.

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Game of Thrones spoilers below, of course.

Carice Van Houten, who plays part time hag and full time sorceress Melisandre onGame of Thrones, tweeted a picture of an "awkward farewell" gift for former co-star Kerry Ingram, and the humor is as dark as Melisandre's shadow baby.

In case you need a reminder and are somehow not completely traumatized from the scene, Melisandre needed some good juju and decided the best way to get it would be to burn Shireen Baratheon (Kerry Ingram) at the stake as a bunch of people, including her parents, watched on.

Like, yeah, valar marghulis and all that, but burning a child alive was next-level disturbing, even for Thrones.

Ugh, if you didn't bring Jon Snow back, we would all hate you so much.

The picture that van Houten tweeted is actually a pretty well done photoshop of this picture Ingram tweeted last year, but it looks like The Red Lady prefers a more sinister #tbt to the original.

The gift combines Melisandre's dark side with van Houten's great sense of humor. In case you didn't know, she is actually pretty hilarious, and her Twitter game is on point.

Well, if Melisandre sticks it out in the upcoming season, she better start thinking up more gag gifts. They are droppin' like flies over there in Westeros.

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