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Grandfather comes to the aid of server after she gets a racist note instead of a tip.

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A server at a lunch spot in Harrisonburg, Virginia opened up the checkbook to find that not only had her customers refused to tip her, they'd written a horrifying message instead:

Sadie Elledge, 18, explained to WHSV that the customers, a man and woman, were unfriendly to her throughout the encounter. "They wouldn't talk to me. They would just nod their heads," she said. Even stranger, the woman apparently had an accent herself.

A Valley restaurant server gets a nasty and racist surprise when she reads through a receipt left by customers. Tune in LIVE and hear what happened #WHSV

Posted by Isabel Rosales on Thursday, August 18, 2016

"I was born here but I'm Mexican and Honduran," said Elledge.

The owner of the restaurant refuses to have the offending couple back in her establishment. And several neighbors sent Elledge a letter, in which they "covered the tip and then some."

But Elledge's grandfather was probably the angriest of all. He gave a furious interview to The Washington Post, in which he explains how he posted the receipt to his Facebook account—which triggered a return to the restaurant by the offending couple. Elledge happened to enter the restaurant at the same time.

We didn't talk much. She was mad that I posted it....The guy, he was being really belligerent. ... She was asking me why I posted it. I said obviously, it was an insult—your signature against my grandaughter— darn right I'm going to post it. And no apologies.

Here's part of that Facebook post he wouldn't apologize for:

I’d happily do the jail time if I could get just one solid punch in to the face of the son of a bitch who paid for his meal at the luncheonette where my granddaughter works and left the receipt for her with a note saying, “Sorry, we only tip citizens.”

ThePost report does not mention any punched faces, so the "son a b*tch" likely escaped the restaurant unscathed, and likely pretty shaken up.


Dr. Pimple Popper answers 7 questions about the pleasures of pus.

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I love popping pimples. When I don't have my own to pop I sit on top of my boyfriend, who lets me squeeze his face until either his blackheads or his patience runs out. And when I really need that fix, I watch Dr. Pimple Popper viral videos. She is a professional after all. Yesterday, Dr. Pimple Popper (a.k.a. Dr. Sandra Lee) took time out of her busy pimple popping schedule to talk to me about squeezing cysts, social media, and why something so gross could be become so popular.

It's Friday, baby. ✌🏼️❤️💥#DrPimplePopper

A video posted by Sandra Lee, MD Dermatology (@drpimplepopper) on

Who are you? How did it come to this?

I grew up on Southern California. Went undergrad at UCLA, then med school at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia (which is now Drexel), did a residency at SIU in Springfield, and then a fellowship in San Diego.

That's a lot of training to become the world's most popular popper. What's your favorite procedure to perform?

I'm a dermatological surgeon, so my favorite things to do is surgery in general. I do cosmetic surgery, weather it be eye lifts, or liposuction, things like that. But I also do skin cancer surgery, a procedure called Mohs surgery.

You're a real surgeon curing skin cancer, what made you decide to start filming these popping videos?

It just happened. I had an Instagram page that had me doing various different procedures, and once I posted a pimple popping or a black head extraction I noticed it got a little jump in views. And then I put one on my YouTube channel and that got more and more attention, and it made me discover that there was a whole community of people— on reddit for example— who just like to watch shared videos. The subreddit is called "popping," and they just share popping videos and most of them are amateur videos, people doing it in their own home, with no gloves. Just in their bathroom or their living room, and I realized I had access to what they were looking for. But it became much bigger than this. A lot of people like this kind of stuff.

How did this become a thing? Why do we like this?

I think it's fascinating. It something that we all can relate to. We've all had a pimple, we know it can feel good to have the thing removed. Its a cleansing feeling, it relaxes people, it decreases their anxiety.

What makes a great video? How do some videos become more popular than others?

I think my favorite ones are the ones that are the most favorite by the YouTube community... a couple reasons why. There can be a really touching person, a person who kind of touches our hearts even though we don't know them. There's also people who have amazing cysts or amazing blackheads that you wouldn't expect were under there— there's this thing that you cant believe came out of somebody. I don't think there's one people didn't like that I can't understand why they didn't like that person. I think people catch on, they have the same attraction to these things.

Are there any that you go back to watch yourself?

Sometimes, if something just stuck with me. Like the big lipoma, like a chicken cutlet, that came out of that woman's arm, the one that came from Alaska. The way it just pops out like that, its enormous, and that's certainly something that I could probably watch over and over again. There's some things that I go "wow," you know?

Yeah. I do know. I love that one.

We all love that one. To date, Dr. Pimple popper has millions of subscribers on both her YouTube channel and Instagram page. She's also started a new channel, Dr. Pimple Popper University, just in case maybe you have the urge to do this at home right now.

Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros sues the network for being a 'sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult.'

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Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros is suing the network and its former chief Roger Ailes for alleged sexual harassment.

The lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court, goes into specific, salacious details. Tantaros alleges that the cable news network "operated like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency, and misogyny."

This suit comes after Gretchen Carlson, another former Fox News broadcaster, sued Ailes for sexual harassment, and Ailes subsequently stepped down (with a $40 million severance package to keep him company).

In the complaint, Tantaros details the many horrifying, predatory things Ailes and other Fox News higher-ups have said and done.

At the outset of her employment, Tantaros was merely the victim of demeaning conduct, such as being instructed to wear clothes that showed off her legs, and being required to annually pick on-air clothing in the middle of a room without the benefit of even a curtain, thereby forcing her to strip down in front of Fox News wardrobe personnel.

In summer of 2014, Tantaros filed complaints against Ailes within the company, for making repeated inappropriate comments to her. These remarks included asking her to "turn around so I can get a good look at you," and telling her, "I bet you'd look good in a bikini."

Tantaros also alleges that Ailes retaliated against her in multiple ways, including removing her as a host of The Five, and insisting she only give interviews to publications that Ailes himself owns. Executives told her that Ailes was a "very powerful man" and that she "needed to let this one go." When her complaints were revealed to management, she was fully taken off the air.

Tantaros was suspended with pay in 2016, ostensibly for failing to clear her book Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What They Wanted Has Made Women Miserable with the network. (Though it may or may not have had something to do with her refusing to accept a settlement for previous harassment.)

"Ailes did not act alone," the lawsuit reads. "He may have been the primary culprit, but his actions were condoned by his most senior lieutenants, who engaged in a concerted effort to silence Tantaros by threats, humiliation, and retaliation."

Read the full complaint on Scribd.

10 job interview red flags that should warn you to walk away.

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It's hard to remember this when you're looking for work, but hastily taking a bad job is like jumping into a bad relationship—ultimately, the toll it takes on you won't be worth the short-term benefits. This amusing infographic from the HR consultants at Approved Index has ten handy warning signs you can watch out for at basically any kind of company. It doesn't matter what the level of technology or pay is at a workplace, if the employees look like they envy your unemployment, that's probably your cue to leave and never come back.

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Pop star Stacey Solomon slams tabloid that shamed her post-baby boobs.

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Stacey Solomon is perhaps best known for being a finalist on the UK'sX-Factor in 2009, so you're forgiven if you haven't heard of her. But this week she's making headlines stateside, thanks to some cringeworthy copy about her in British paper The Sun, and her swift, Clapback Hall of Fame-worthy response. She shared the paper's mean-spirited spread of her in a bikini on her own Instagram:

I LOVE MY BODY @TheSun My boobs are a result of being pregnant & breast feeding & I love them. I Am just as sexy! 👙

A photo posted by Stacey Solomon (@staceysolomon) on

And captioned it:

I LOVE MY BODY @TheSun

My boobs are a result of being pregnant & breast feeding & I love them. I Am just as sexy! 👙

And lest you think "X FACTOR TO SUN FACTOR" or "Top flop" are the most painful parts of The Sun's copywriting, the smaller blurb below the photos is Tabloid at its best/worst.

X FACTOR stars Stacey Solomon and Louisa Johnson show it's a case of sinky pinky and perky with contrasting bikini styles.

Stacey, 26, left, who finished third on the 2009 series of the talent show, seemed to have trouble keeping hers on while on holiday in Ibiza.

Meanwhile, last year's winner, Louisa, 18, showed how it should be done while on a break in LA. Guess that's the difference between lip-synching or swimming...

Solomon also followed up her Instagram with this delicate middle finger to The Sun—although it takes the form of the high road.

Watch a terrifying human stampede that started because of a rare Pokémon.

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When Pokémon excitement reaches human stampede levels of insanity, it's time to delete the app.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=MoYjVTbLWyo

This scene in Taiwan went down because a Snorlax popped up, Pokémon Go's most rare non-evolved character. Thousands of people with way too much time on their hands poured into the tiny streets of Beitou Park to catch Snorlax, a character that literally only eats and sleeps.

北投公園

Posted by Wang Shinting on Sunday, August 21, 2016

Scenes like this are how the zombie apocalypse is going to start. People think they're just playing a silly game, but then they step into a trap with a secret zombie-making substance in the air, leaving all those poor souls infected and screwing the rest of us out of a zombie-free future.

Zombies are going to take over, all because you wanted a Snorlax. You should be ashamed.

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Mom goes viral with hilarious video about sending a kid to their first day of kindergarten.

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Susannah B. Lewis, a mom from Brownsville, Tennessee, has gone viral with her video about the trauma of sending your kid off to their first day of kindergarten. It's a roller coaster, but hang tight, it has a happy ending.

Kindergarten vs. Every Other Grade

Posted by Whoa Susannah on Thursday, August 11, 2016

What starts off as a meltdown ends with a message of hope for moms of new kindergartners: it gets better! A lot better. Manicures and Vegas better. The video seems to have resonated with people, because it has been viewed over 6 million times and shared almost 85,000 times.

Lewis, who runs the blog Whoa Susannah, is mom to a 10-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy and she told Us Weekly the video was 100% based on her own parenting experiences. “I feared they would pee their pants [on their 1st days of kindergarten] because they couldn’t find the bathroom, they would starve because they wouldn’t eat lunch and would miss me so much that they’d scream my name all day,” she recalls. “None of these things happened.”

So if you're taking your kid to their first day of kindergarten soon, just remember that this:

Will one day turn into this:

James Corden sang a Prince classic with Coldplay and brought the house down.

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James Corden, known to everyone for singing in cars, delivered a rare stationary performance when he joined Coldplay on stage at their Los Angeles concert to sing a tribute to Prince. Corden took the stage with Chris Martin and the other dudes in the band to sing "Nothing Compares 2 U," written by the late, great Prince.

Corden was spotted chillin' with Niall from One Direction before going on stage—no word on whether or not they carpooled to the concert.

Corden's heavenly pipes and emotional delivery presented a cool departure from his usual jaunty, jovial persona.

The clip also includes Coldplay and the crowd singing "Happy Birthday" to Corden, with Chris Martin managing to make the song of celebration sound just as melancholy as any Coldplay track.

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The internet reacts to Speedo dropping its sponsorship of dumb-dumb Ryan Lochte.

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Speedo announced on Monday, August 22, that it would be dropping its sponsorship of Olympic gold medalist swimmer Ryan Lochte after Lochte lied about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio. Three other companies soon followed suit. It is similar to how Michael Phelps was dropped by Kellogg after he was photographed taking a bong rip, because, as you know, smoking weed is as bad as lying about a crime.

Here are the official statements that funny people made on Twitter:

Hope you don't have to swim naked, Ryan Lochte. Actually, yes, I kind of do. You have a nice body.

Two women live-tweet their experience traveling from Ireland to the UK to get a legal abortion.

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Two Irish women recently took a stance against their country's constitutional ban on abortion in an epic Twitter journey to the United Kingdom to get a legal abortion.

They started their journey with a handwritten note to Irish Prime Minister Edna Kenny, the pro-life leader of the Fine Gael party and Ireland's coalition government. Ireland's ban on abortion has been in place since 1983, with the passage of the 8th Amendment to the Irish constitution. The debate has grown more intense in recent years since the 2012 death of Savita Halappanavar, who was denied an abortion even after proving that the pregnancy put her life at risk.

The two women set up the appropriately-named @TwoWomenTravel Twitter account to document the their journey to get a safe, legal abortion. Because of the ban, they had to fly to the United Kingdom to get the procedure.

In conclusion, the women wrote...

"Everyday at least 12 Irish women are exiled to clinics in the UK to procure an abortion. These women choose to have abortions, but they do not choose to be shamed into the secrecy, panic and guilt that the journey to leave their home country inspires.

We wanted to share the very ordinariness of the situation - we wanted to show it for what it is; a series of waiting rooms, moments in transit, a sequence of tediums protracted by stigma. No filters, no monologues, just the facts.

We had to travel because our government insists that we pretend this isn’t happening.

We defy the Irish government to ignore us and we defy our Taoiseach Edna Kenny to avoid this conversation. We have done this to bring light the reality of our journey to our sisters, mothers, brothers, fathers, friends, colleagues and total strangers. All of whom have shown more empathy, support and acceptance than our own government.

Our journey ends here tonight but the struggle for our reproductive freedom continues. We hope that the outpouring of public support encourages more women to document their experiences, to highlight the issue, and to stand with us in the battle for control over our own bodies.

Thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts.

Yours in solidarity,

T.W.T.

Even though abortion is legal in the United States, similar actions are taken by many American women who live in states with restrictions on abortions.

KFC is giving out free fried-chicken-scented sunscreen to ruin the beach forever.

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In a promotion for KFC's extra crispy recipe, the fast food brand gave out 3,000 bottles of fried chicken-scented sunscreen through its website on Monday. Overnight, beaches around the country were transformed into chicken-and-dead-crab-smelling hellscapes of aromatic sunbathers running for their lives from crazed seagulls. Presumably.

It's only SPF 30, so you'll still get burned like you were under a heat lamp too long.

The promotion coincides with KFC's hiring of famously tan actor George Hamilton as their new "extra-crispy" Colonel Sanders. So the gimmick sorta makes sense, and the fact that the bottles were snatched up so quickly indicates that the stunt was a marketing success. But pop culture-savvy consumers know that this kind of mad scientist experiment can't possibly end well.

And that's assuming there aren't more sinister motives at play. With all due respect to the great George Hamilton, he's not the most significant tanned man in the news these days. Who else has such an orange glow, a love for the spotlight, and a documented fondness for KFC?

I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but if it isn't, what exactly is the Trump campaign doing with their time? They're clearly not campaigning. Anyway, don't let that stop you from buying KFC. Those spices are good.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel shared a photobooth with one Hillary Clinton.

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Married famous people Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel hosted a fundraising luncheon for presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Ugh, those liberals in Hollyweird, right? Anyway, during the lunch, the former Secretary of State took some time to pose with Timberlake and Biel in a photobooth, and here that is:

Look WHO DID come over for lunch... Wow. #imwithher

A photo posted by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on

The conservative-leaning commenter on this website who is the first to write "ugh, so disappointed" gets a prize! (The prize is being ignored.)


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Parents are outraged by this school's passive-aggressive sign telling them to go away.

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You know what's a crazy idea? A school actually teaching kids to be responsible. The audacity! Well, the Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock, Arkansas attempted to do their job teaching kids important life lessons about independence, but some parents weren't having any of this insanity.

The uproar started when the school posted this sign...

Well, reactions on Facebook reached Sally-Field-Not-Without-My-Daughter levels of cray...

Mandy commented...

"I always dropped off if forgotten and have 3 wonderful well adjusted responsible adult sons!"

Denise wrote...

"My son wouldn't attend this "Catholic" school! Shame on this school! The parent has FINAL say over THEIR child (ren)!!! Not a priest, nun, or whoever else!"

Emma threw this shade...

"Shame you're not showing empathy love or humility - you're a school not a parent and therefore you have zero right to enforce your parenting beliefs on the children that attend your school - a learning establishment ... If you are without sin ... Cast the first stone! We all make mistakes and forgetting lunch is sometimes one of them."

While E Karl kept it real...

"Just wanted to say I've sincerely enjoyed the utter nonsense of this thread. Please, nutjobs keep it up. Your contributions, rife with hatchet jobs of basic grammar, spelling, and syntax, are delightful. This school would no doubt call your weak bluffs about marching to your son's classroom or pulling him out of school. If you only knew about some of the creative punishment Catholic has doled out over the years. The pearl-clutching would be off the charts."

Ronnie can't stop yelling...

"I CAN'T BELIEVE ALL THE WHINING. LET THE KID GROW UP AND LEARN RESPONSE ABILITY. LET THE SCHOOL DO THEIR JOB AND THE REST WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF. I GRADUATED FROM A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL AFTER GOING TO A PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND IT WAS A RUDE AWAKENING. THEY DEFINITELY DON'T BABY SIT."

Meanwhile Debora is ready to turn this car around...

"Pull your kid's out of this school. You pay them not the other way around."

And Andrew finally admitted he's a criminal...

"This is how I learned to steal other kid's lunch without getting caught ;) Put a kid in a stressful survival situation and they will make survival based choices regardless of whether they are good or bad morally speaking."

Something tells us the school doesn't give AF about these whiny parents.

17 YouTube channels you can follow to become the smartest person at bar trivia.

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The comedians, gamers, and controversy-stirrers of YouTube may grab all the headlines, but the slow and steady stars of the video service are the reliable non-fiction channels that produce explainer videos of all sorts for the betterment of the internet. These are not the ubiquitous hosts waving into the camera and saying "Hey YouTubers!" before giving you their rant. These are well-researched, polished, entertaining educational videos on every topic imaginable, and if you like getting smarter while you relax, you should follow them all.

1. Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

As the name implies, "In a Nutshell" takes really, really big topics ranging from medicine to the nature of the universe itself, and condenses them into short, pithy videos with a distinctive style of animation and narration. A relative newcomer to the explainer video genre, Kurzgesagt (German for "In a Nutshell") is the place to go to ponder ideas that are sometimes uncomfortable—mostly because they often involve the death of humanity, earth, spacetime, and you. They also do topical explainers, like this video about the refugee crisis in Syria, but not as often:

2. Mental Floss

The granddaddy of the group, Mental Floss started as a physical magazine in 2001. Nevertheless, they have been doing fact-filled curated listicles since before "curation" and "listicles" were internet buzzwords. It's mostly trivia, misconception-busts, lifehacks, and other lists of short facts, hosted by folks you may know from other YouTube channels, like John Green of Crash Course and Mike Rugnetta of PBS Idea Channel.

3. SciShowand SciShow Space

Perhaps the flagship of pop science YouTube channels, SciShow has covered hundreds of topics in a way that is accessible and fun for everyone. Led by Hank Green (the Green brothers will appear a lot in this article) and an excellent team of smart, fun hosts who will teach you everything from why cilantro tastes like soap to some people to why humans have butt hair. If it has an explanation (or even if science is baffled), SciShow will give it to you.

SciShow Space is like SciShow, but with different hosts and all about space. Do you like space? Well, guess what, champ: you'll like SciShow Space.

4. CGP Grey

Made by an American dude living in England, CGP Grey mostly focuses on historical/political topics that most people think of as complex and boring—but actually totally aren't! There are only new videos every month or two, which sounds bad, but on the other hand, you'll actually be excited when you get a notification that the channel has a new upload.

5. Crash Course

Do you ever feel like you forgot what you learned in school, but don't want to relive the awful experience of going to school? Good news: Crash Course exists. Started by John Green (yep, again), Crash Course will teach you everything you forgot (or your teacher forgot to tell you) about world history, US history, US government and politics, astronomy, philosophy, chemistry, economics, and way more, arranged in topical playlists. You can even "study" the history of games.

6. BrainCraft

Part of the excellent PBS YouTube network, BrainCraft is hosted by Vanessa Hill and focuses on interesting aspects of psychology, neurology, and the unconscious ways the world affects our decisions. If you want to know why your brain produces everything from emotions to optical illusions to goosebumps, you'll want to get that information into your cranium via these videos.

7. Vox

Ezra Klein's internet media empire is many things, but being a home to explainer videos is actually one of their core missions. Klein has stated that he wants people to be able to come to Vox and get a simple, quick understanding of any current event or topic. Sometimes, it's pop culture or pop science, others are ripped straight from the headlines:

8. China Uncensored

This weekly show hosted by Chris Chappell peaks behind the propaganda of China to reveal what's really going on in the Communist country. There are a lot of people who claim to have facts "THEY don't want you to know," but China Uncensored actually, really, is mostly stuff the CCP would rather you not pay attention to.

9. VSauce

For simplicity's sake, we're just going to talk about "VSauce 1," or "VSauce Prime" or whatever you want to call it. Like an educational ESPN, VSauce has branched out into a bunch of numbered channels with different hosts, but they all cover information that's meant to make you go "woah." It's basically like someone set out to give serious answers to stoned college students.

11. Physics Girl

Physics Girl Dianna Cowern shows how physics affects everything from sports to space, along with guest appearances from stars such as Bill Nye the Science Guy and many of the YouTubers already mentioned on this list.

12. Veritasium

One of the best places for having weird scientific phenomena explained, Veritasium host Derek Miller is also fond of going out in the field for his videos, traveling as far as the northernmost town in the world to visit the Svalbard Seed Vault. If there's a physics mystery or scientific oddity that can be visited and demonstrated in person, Miller will try it.

12. Smarter Every Day

Another big fan of getting out in the field, Smarter Every Day's Destin Sandlin is an engineer who set out to make complex topics accessible to the every day person (that's almost verbatim from the "about" section, I believe). One of the most well-known YouTubers on this list, Destin's relentless excitement for science and engineering is contagious.

13. ASAP Scienceand ASAP Thought

Although ASAP Science is a whiteboard animation set to music (it does have arms in it, though) and ASAP Thought has complete live humans, both of them are an endless supply of answers to questions you didn't know you had.

14. It's Okay To Be Smart

Not to be confused with Smarter Every Day (although I often do confuse them), IOKTBS is another PBS channel that brings professional-level production value to the questions and puzzles that people have pondered forever.

15. Minute Physics

Another animated science channel, Minute Physics is unassociated with ASAP Science, despite the similar styles. The videos actually tend to be several minutes long, but you won't even notice, because you'll be paying attention so you can repeat the stuff you learned when you go to the bar tonight.

16. Life Noggin

One of the newer entries on this list, Life Noggin asks all the really big hypothetical questions... and then answers them.

17. Tom Scott

The only eponymous channel on this list, Tom Scott's endless British enthusiasm for trivia takes him around the world so he can excitedly explain everything from local landmarks to scientific mysteries. He's currently on an extended trip to the arctic, after which he will presumably return with a delightfully charming anecdote about how it's all melting and we're going to die.

Bonus: Bill Wurtz has only made one non-fiction video so far, but his History of Japan can't be missed.

14 people told us their best stories of the worst wedding guests they ever saw. (Vol. 3)

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This is the third installment of Worst Wedding Guest stories from Someecards readers, because our fans are hilarious, and apparently they attend a lot of disastrous weddings. (Volume 1, Volume 2) At this point, we're just left wondering if every mother-in-law in America needs to go to rehab. Also, the nation's brothers need to dump their girlfriends, because they are trainwrecks. Not like the groomsmen out there are doing much better. Y'know what? Everyone's a mess. Go take a cold shower and drink some coffee, all of you!

1. Sometimes, there are two sides to every story. Other times, you're talking about Caitlin from Facebook's cousin.

My cousin is a true lady. At my sisters wedding, she stole all of the free cigars, shoved them in her grossly ample cleavage and blamed it on the closest black guy. She then proceed to proposition anyone and everyone, from our wedding and the strangers wedding in the room next door. Man or woman, young or old, it didn't matter, her groping hands were everywhere. It was open bar, she left the bar with 5 white Russians everytime, all for her.

After the wedding ended, a groomsman found her lying in the parking lot and he offered to help her. She declined but offered to let him watch her pleasure herself in the bathroom. He declined, so she countered with an offer of oral sex. He still declined, so she threw profanities at him. Back at the hotel, she wandered around the parking lot alternately screaming and crying. Once inside, she tried seducing her sisters husband, in front of family members. The last time I saw her that night, she was lost in an elevator and couldn't figure out how to get out.

2. This story, emailed in by an anonymous reader, has an important moral: don't get too close to your work friends. Or maybe anyone.

My ex-boyfriend/ex-husband and I were friends with another couple, we will call them Tim and Susan, and we all worked for the same company before we got married. Tim had been one of my close friends since I was about 15. (I was about 24 at this time.) Tim and Susan got engaged out of the blue and I was very happy for them. About a month or 2 later, my boyfriend proposed to me. I had never been married before and my boyfriend had had a very short marriage before me. The other couple had both been married before.

We go about planning the wedding and Susan and I were to be a bridesmaids in the other's wedding. They were having lots of issues planning their wedding with venues and such while ours was flowing along smoothly. I even made sure she was ok with the fact that I wanted to get married a couple months before her.

Cut to the wedding day: I had made sure the bridesmaids dresses were comfortable and flattering to everyone. I asked that they please leave their dresses on as long as the photographer was in attendance. After about an hour at the reception I see Susan walking around with some ugly brown skirt and and t-shirt. She decided that she wanted to change. I was pissed but didn't want it to ruin my wedding day so I ignored her. At least for awhile.

Her and her boyfriend preceded to smoke multiple joints behind the building where the reception was being held and also got completely drunk. They didn't stay to help us clean anything and I ended up having to take off my wedding dress to help clean the building after the reception.

My husband and I went on our honeymoon. We come back and go to work after a week to find out she has told everyone at the company what a bitch I was at my wedding and how i yelled at everyone and ordered people around and kept telling people what to do. She made up multiple stories of how I was a huge bridezilla. I was completely in shock.

I called my closest family and friends, the ones that would tell me the truth, to ask how I was and they said they didn't see me lose my cool even once. I confronted her about it and she lied and said that she didn't say anything to anyone. She replaced me in her wedding with her sister and had to get a new dress because her sister wouldn't fit in the one I was going to wear.

They ended up having to have a Vegas style wedding because no one in our small town would marry them since they both had been divorced. I never once spoke to either of them again. I left the company about a year later but my ex-husband stayed working there.

He said the day after i left she started flirting with him and he told her to "F" off. My husband told me later that he had intended to propose to me a few months before he actually did and talked to Tim about it and showed him the ring he had purchased for me. Tim proposed to Susan the very next day.

He was furious and Tim even rubbed it in his face that he "beat him." I also found out she talked trash about me the entire time i was planning my wedding. She didn't attend my bridal shower or my bachelorette party. I have ran into her out and about since then and ignore her even when she attempts to talk to me. My husband and I got divorced a couple years ago but we still talk about how crazy she is.

3. Debbie's story is proof that a rich town is no protection against disaster. The culprit here is even more terrifying than the brother's girlfriend: the brother's ex-girlfriend.

I was a guest at a wedding in a very upscale community. All the wedding guests were seated in the church wearing their designer outfits. The priest was in place, the groom at the altar, and the organist started to play the wedding march. The bride was about to be escorted to the altar by her brother. As the flower girls walked down the aisle all of a sudden we heard screams, and a loud commotion.

Apparently, the brother of the bride had dumped his girlfriend right before the wedding, so the crazy ex decided she was going to ruin his sister’s big day. She physically attacked the bride, gauging fingernails in her face, tearing her veil off her head. She also was trying to rip the wedding gown off of the bride.

Guests were trying to break up the attack. The mother of the bride dumped a bowl of holy water over the ex-girlfriend’s head and it took 6 grown men to finally physically restrain the ex girlfriend. The priest just stood at the altar shouting “Jesus Christ” and rattled off a bunch of prayers. (Some of them even sounded like he was performing an exorcisism!)

The police were called, 5 patrol cars responded and the brother’s ex girlfriend was eventually arrested. After an hour delay so that the bride’s dress could be repaired, the wedding finally took place.

We found out at the reception that the ex-girlfriend had been committed to a mental institution. Unfortunately, the bride had cuts all over her face but the wedding photographer was able to retouch them out of the wedding pictures. This wedding was definitely soap-opera worthy, and is a true legend in the town.

4. Cassandra can laugh at her confused, mean-spirited wedding officiant now, but the online review she might have left probably wasn't as forgiving.

We hired a sweet old lady to marry us. The night before the wedding at the rehearsal she was different. She had a huge scar across her neck and her speech was slurred. I don't know if it was surgery and she was hopped up on pain meds or if she pissed off a bride the week before. She was mean as hell.

We paid her extra to do the rehearsal and my parents were 10 minutes late because they stopped to pay the caterer and their system was down. She wanted to have the rehearsal without my dad to walk me down. I told her she was going to wait, again it was 10 minutes.

She barked orders at everyone once it got started and was even mean to the flower girl. I was so upset I could barely go to sleep that night worrying about the minister the next day. So we're lining up to do the ceremony and I see she has a book with her speech all written out and my name is even highlighted.

Well she starts calling me the wrong name part way through the ceremony then back to the right one. When she goes back to the wrong name my sister corrects her out loud.

Immediately after the ceremony she demanded payment from my parents and was very rude about it. Then she had the nerve to ask for a review on one of those wedding websites. I told her she really didn't want me to do that. No apologies or anything. Best part is we have video of this and it's pretty funny to go back and watch.

5. Rebecca is a woman of few words, but not many are needed to convey that this mother of the groom was, indeed, a special one.

When we got married. My husband's mother flew out from Philadelphia and we met her at the airport. I knew immediately she did not like me. Then she served my husbands father with divorce papers, so the entire event was shrouded by that.

They both told us that "well, maybe I should not go to the wedding because THEY are going to be there."

My husband was so upset over all this stupid drama that I got us a hotel room and we went there to get away from them. What a mess.

6. Sometimes it's hard to admit that your own family members aren't on board with your marriage, like with this anonymous reader's husband.

Before we were married, my husband didn't believe me when I told him that his sister didn't like me.

She showed up in head to toe black to our outdoor summer wedding. The only thing missing was a mourning veil draped over her hat. Her husband was also in a black suit. They are pictured unsmiling and looking like a mafia couple with a hit out on the bride in our photo album.

So many years and insults later, (she takes every opportunity to imply that I'm a bad daughter in law, wife, mother or just a whore) my poor man had to accept that his sister is a crazy bully.

The only bright spot is that she lives a few states away and we rarely see her.

7. Robert's stories are both examples of common pitfalls—the bad best man speech and the too-excited couple—that are nevertheless brutal no matter how many times they're repeated. At least these people knew when to apologize.

The best man gave a speech that essentially summed up all of the chicks the groom had boned in the past. Apparently he thought it would be a crowd pleaser, but when the stunned silence befell the room, he quickly aborted the mission. A couple of drinks later, he commandeered the microphone again to apologize to everybody.

The second one were the bride and groom. They were both passionate people. Every kiss was a 20-second long tongue twister. It looked like they were trying to eat each other's faces. I lost my appetite after the fourth or fifth time. And of course, everyone kept clinking their glasses to encourage it. Then, during the cake exchange, they both smashed it in each other's face and proceeded to start to throw cake at each other. The bride broke down in tears and the groom had to grab the microphone to issue his apology.

8. They say that when you get old, you stop giving a shit. That was not the case with this anonymous reader's great-grandmother.

A few years ago my aunt was getting married to a guy (a purple heart veteran) our whole family loved. I am fortunate enough to know (or have known) most of my great grandparents. My great grandmother was a formidable woman, to say the least.

She constantly pitted her children (3 boys and 2 girls) against one another, made rude comments about family members to their faces, and was obsessed with getting attention. If she felt that people weren't paying enough attention to her, she'd pretend to faint or have some sort of medical scare that required hospitalization. It got to the point where nurses and doctors knew us by name, even though time and time again it was proven that absolutely nothing was wrong with her. S

o the ceremony starts and my younger cousins are the ring bearers walking out first. Then come my great grandparents. Suddenly, my cousin nudges me (we were next in line to walk) and we see that my great grandmother has left a trail of the most drippy, foul-smelling shit behind her.

She was literally shitting her pants while walking down the aisle. Now, some people may believe this was an accident, and this poor old lady was having bathroom issues and couldn't help it. Not the case. She was laughing maniacally the whole way down the aisle, and as she sat down.

My cousins and I scrambled to clean it up before my aunt and uncle walked, but pretty much everyone had seen what had happened. The rest of the wedding was great, and my great grandmother insisted on leaving 2 minutes after pooping everywhere because she was bored.

9. Jessie sent us not one, but two stories about impressively bad guests, the first featuring the always reliable uncle's girlfriend.

I was reading your article and could not help but add one of my own. I’ve been to a handful of weddings, they each have their “moments” but these are a couple of the WINNERS for worst guest.

1. My cousin (one of those who always had an air of superiority) was marrying a guy with a well-to-do family and had moved across the country and found a great job in Law Enforcement/Investigation. She came back to her home town for the wedding…it was “fall colors”, formal wedding and everything was PERFECT.

We have a HUGE redneck family, but most of us still know how to behave in public. MOST. My Uncle’s girlfriend was apparently the exception to that rule. When the time came for the reception the tables all had name cards. You had to walk PAST the main table for the wedding party and then find your table.

My Uncle’s girlfriend is about 500 pounds, no I am not exaggerating. She wore a Winnie the Pooh stained up t-shirt and a pair of brown leggings to the wedding…when she came into the reception hall she insisted that she could walk no further and sat down at the first table she came to…the WEDDING PARTIES TABLE!

We tried to get her to move, even telling her she could rest but then HAD to move as it wasn’t her seat. No go…she wasn’t moving. So, my Uncle sat down with her, and there they stayed…for the entire reception. Needless to say…lovely wedding photos with the bridal party, one pissed off bride, one confused Uncle and a giant Winnie the Pooh.

10. Jessie's second story is about that most dangerous of wedding guests, the totally unhinged Maid of Honor.

2. My husband was the best man in a wedding. The whole ceremony seemed a bit “winging it”…the vows seemed unrehearsed as one of the brides lines was “I love you, even though you keep spending all our money”. However, when time came for speeches they gave the mic to her VERY drunk Maid of Honor.

She proceeded to give what will forever be known as the “BLEEP” speech. It started off ok, but took a turn pretty fast where she informed the Bride she loved her so much she wanted to “bleep” her “bleep” and that they could still kiss and lick each other’s “bleeps” any time…I’m not kidding…she actually used the word “bleep” MANY times describing their inappropriate “friendship/love”.

Same MOH then proceeded to dirty dance and show everyone her vagina and boobs…repeatedly, even our kids. Later she changed into animal print footie pjs which she kept unzipped down to her thighs and danced the night away mostly nude. Shame is, my hubby gave a very nice best man’s speech and no one remembers because this girl made a huge ass out of herself!

11. An anonymous reader also sent us two very big stories. The first one could be titled "My Big Fat Greek Wedding Disaster."

So, I have been to some atrocious weddings, with some equally atrocious guests, but I think the one guest that will stand out in my head was the best man at one of the first weddings I went to for a friend.

This friend is Greek Orthodox, and so, I guess it is customary for his best man to be Greek Orthodox as well. But I suppose in these times, rules are more lax as he had a Jewish best man, but still needed a Greek Orthodox best man, on top of the non-Greek Orthodox best man.

The Greek Orthodox best man invited people not invited to the wedding, telling them it was fine, and that their invitations got lost in the mail, and then seated said uninvited guests at seats of unclaimed seats he could find around the dining area. He was seen the entire reception up until it was time for best man speeches, staggering around, double fisting hard cocktails.

When confronted at one point about perhaps he should be taking it slow, he was like, "nonsense. Don't worry." To change the subject, I asked, "so, you ready for your speech? You rehearse it or you just gonna read it off a sheet?" He informed me he didn't prepare anything and was just going to wing it (I guess hence why he was downing enough vodka to kill an elephant, to be extra prepared....)

He gets up there and it is the most God awful, embarrassing speech. The term "regurgitation" had even been mentioned during this drunken triad of his. The groom was facepalming very hard, the bride was visibly embarrassed and shocked at the entire situation. To try and save what little grace was left in this entire situation, the emcee had gone up to this babbling train wreck and eventually tried to physically wrestle the microphone out of the guy's hands. At this point, the drunken speech giver's mother and siblings who were present were covering their faces in embarrassment with napkins and hands.

To add to all of this, as if the speech wasn't enough, the antics went on. The drunken best man's girlfriend at the time, who was not approved of by his mother, had caught the bouquet tossed by the bride. So, I guess in some kinda way to try and prove to his mother that he and the girlfriend she didn't approve of were meant to be, he had went for the garter belt when it was tossed.

And I don't mean that he just jumped really high or told the groom to toss it his way. No, he went all out like a wide receiver, knocking children down and diving over other guys his size. Then, walking up to his mother, all out of breath and proud of himself to show her that since he caught the garter, and his girlfriend caught the bouquet, it was destiny. The mother was visibly annoyed and angered by her son's antics by this point.

The rest of the night was alright, save for a few more forgettable drunken antics by this guy. Months later, the groom had shared with me, and some other friends, save for the drunken best man, that he had to severely edit out pictures for his wedding album. His wife was not pleased at all how many photos contained this drunken buffoonery of the mandatory best man. Also, the wedding video went missing (on purpose) because it contained that horrendous, off the drunken cuff, speech.

12. Here, from the same reader, is an entirely new debacle we shall call "Fake Cocaine Is A Hell Of A Drug."

I was asked to be one of the groomsmen in a Hindu wedding. It was a big to-do, but I was up for the challenge, and besides, it was one of my best friends getting married. All I had to do was show up and do my part and then let the celebrations go down for my friend.

I did, however, have my reservations about a few people he invited out of obligation, but it wasn't my wedding, so I just said "ok," when he said not to worry. When one of the people I was worried about showed up looking like Tony Montana from Scarface, my concerns went up a little more. When I found out he had brought little baggies full of flour to pretend he was selling coke at the wedding, I was a little bit more annoyed.

When he started throwing said baggies of flour around the dance floor, me and 2 other friends of mine had to be calmed down and go outside to calm down because we had agreed we were going to take this guy outside and tune him up. I think the crowning achievement of this guy's douchebaggery was when he somehow convinced the DJ to play this CD he brought, containing some super obnoxious song by some Indian singer that he and his loser friends thought was hilarious.

To see an army of Indian people turn and go "the hell is this garbage?" was classic and nerve-wracking to see, especially once they all noticed Tony Montana and his ghoul squad of idiot friends all laughing like hyenas as the song went on and everyone was confused as to why the song was being played.

Later on, my friends and I had informed the groom of what had happened and what a horrible idea it was to invite this guy, even if out of obligation, but whatever. Years later, the groom's little brother got married. This guy was invited YET AGAIN FOR SOME INSANE REASON.

He was much calmer (probably cause he kept disappearing to smoke some THC laced vapor smoking device). Although, he didn't even bring a wedding gift and mere moments after he was seen running from the men's bathroom, there was a mysterious mess found left in there, reminiscent of that scene in Dumb and Dumberer with Bob Sagat yelling "THERE'S SHIT EVERYWHERE!"

13. Finally, B rounds out the two-story entries. First up, a rare case of a bad guest who is absolutely adorable.

The first was before I was born, but the photographic evidence remains. My Dad is the youngest of 3 siblings. His niece Ann is only about 12 years younger than him. She loves my dad. He always spent time with her, took her places. He was the cool uncle. Enter my mom. Naturally as a young teenager, Ann HATES my mother with the fury of a thousand suns. She hated the fact they were getting married and in every single picture she is in, she has an expression worse than Michael Phelps stank face. Scowling, arms crossed, head down on the table teenage fury.

We all laugh about it now, she and my mom are great friends and when I got married, Ann was my maid of honor.

14. B's final story has a simple message: don't be a huge racist. No one likes that.

The second story isn't quite as fun. I come from a small town full of some very small minded people. My friend Joe got married and his best man was his decidedly country-friend best friend named Steve.

When Steve got up to give his best man speech, he ended it with the toast, "And like Christmas, may all your children be white." In a room full of people of all walks of life, Black, Asian, Hispanic and certainly not all white. It went over as well as you could have expected.

He ended up passed out drunk in his truck in the parking lot.

If you have a story about someone everyone else wished hadn't RSVP'd, send us an email at submissions@someecards.com with the subject line "Worst Wedding Guest." Please don't use identifying information, and let us know how you would like to be credited. We will use first names by default, but you can be credited anonymously or with your full name and/or a web link. Thanks again to all the wonderful readers who shared their stories with us and the community.

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