Last week, American gymnasts Simone Biles, Madison Kocian, and Aly Raisman went to the beach in Rio to chill after winning a whole bunch of medals. All of their abs went too.
But there's always going to be one guy who wants to ruin the party. That guy, whose twitter handle is @UWantMyD_aniel so you know he's a winner, tweeted "y'all find this attractive?" with a pic of the gymnasts at the beach.
Here is the tweet which he has since, smartly, deleted:
Yes, UWantMyD_aniel, we do.
A lot of people jumped to the gymnasts' defense, taking shots at the ab-hater. Like this:
@UWantMyD_aniel meanwhile you're struggling to lift weights in the gym
Boom! The tweet has been RT'd nearly half-a-million times while the original tweet is gone. So these gymnasts, and their abs, can add this win to their pile of literal medals. Better luck next time, @UWantMyD_aniel (also no, we don't).
Companies die all the time, but if your company didn't just publicly lose all of its money in a lawsuit against Hulk Hogan, it isn't always easy to know if yours will be next. Below are 11 telltale signs that your company is a sinking ship, as provided by the people of Reddit. Of course, if you clicked on this to see if any of them apply to your company, odds are you're already doomed.
2. diamondeath warns to beware of the soul-stealers.
3. McFlynder says to be suspicious of a friendly boss.
The boss turns manipulative to prevent employees from quitting (tries to make friends with them and tells them they're needed to keep the company going).
4. OfficePsycho notes that an object (or employee) at rest stays at rest.
8. inline-triple set the gold standard for a nice shallow assessment.
This one is horrible to admit, but I assure you it’s 100% true. I’ve worked in or visited thousands of corporate zaibatsu’s — everything from Walmart to Microsoft to Delta Airlines to Toyota Financial to Patron Tequila — if the place is filled with well dressed fairly attractive people, it’s a fairly good indicator that the talent is good and tries hard.. If the place is filled with fat ugly schlubs, it’s a fairly good indicator that most people there suck and are just cashing a paycheck and trying to leave 15 minutes early every day.
To everything there is a season, as the Byrds and the Bible say, and according to researchers at the University of Washington, that includes divorce. Apparently, there are two times of year when it's much more common for couples to split up.
Sociologists weren't even looking for a pattern when they discovered prime de-mating season. While looking at the effects of the recession, the researchers studied the divorce statistics from the state of Washington between 2001 and 2015, and found there were some specific times when the filings peaked.
Associate sociology professor Julie Brines and doctoral candidate Brian Serafini found this biannual spike based on quantitative evidence.
Looks kind of like cat ears, but that's not the point.
According to the sociologists, divorce filings have consistently peaked in March and August over the past fourteen years.
Interestingly, these periods come just after the big family holidays. "Winter and summer holidays are culturally sacred times for families," Brines says, "When filing for divorce is considered inappropriate, even taboo."
The holidays, both winter and summer, are an optimistic period that people go into hoping for a fresh start, a kind of "last call" before divorce.
People tend to face the holidays with rising expectations, despite what disappointments they might have had in years past. They represent periods in the year when there’s the anticipation or the opportunity for a new beginning, a new start, something different, a transition into a new period of life. It’s like an optimism cycle, in a sense.
But once the holidays prove themselves to be disappointing, sh*t gets real.
But holidays are also emotionally charged and stressful for many couples and can expose fissures in a marriage. The consistent pattern in filings, the researchers believe, reflects the disillusionment unhappy spouses feel when the holidays don’t live up to expectations.
Christmas sucked? Fourth of July less than jolly? That makes it easier to see the end.
But why wait until March if Christmas was traumatic? The sociologists suspect it's so that families have time to get their finances in order, and starting school at the end of August might hasten the process in the summer.
Good news for couples on edge: August is almost over. And you have plenty of time to get your finances in order for a March divorce.
As if the general policing of women's clothing and bodies weren't enough, now women are getting in trouble at the beach for wearing too much clothing. On Tuesday, a woman named Christina Cerqueira tweeted a photo of the French police demanding that a Muslim woman wearing a traditional headscarf take it off, alongside a picture from sometime during the early 20th century of a police officer making sure a woman's swimsuit adhered to the bathing suit-length laws.
The text accompanying the photos reads: "This suit is too big. This suit is too small. When will it be OK for women to wear what they want?" Good question. Hopefully "never" is not the answer.
"Excuse me, ma'am, but you're not nearly naked enough for the beach."
There is currently a ban on women in burkinis (full body swimsuits worn for reasons of religious modesty) in a number of towns in France, due to concerns about religious garb after the terrorist attacks in Paris and Nice.
The woman in the picture, who said her name was Siam, told the Guardian: "I was sitting on a beach with my family. I was wearing a classic headscarf. I had no intention of swimming." A witness also spoke to them, saying: "The saddest thing was that people were shouting 'go home,' some were applauding the police. Her daughter was crying."
Just let this sink in. Men with guns forcing a women to undress, with the weight of the law behind them. pic.twitter.com/4BI16Bbss9
The Nice tribunal decided on Monday that the ban was appropriate, claiming that the burkini garment was "liable to offend the religious convictions or (religious) non-convictions of other users of the beach," and that it could be seen as "a defiance or a provocation exacerbating tensions felt by" the community. Apparently strangers on the beach yelling at the woman to "go home" was completely fine, though.
Kate Upton, actress, model, and rebel rouser, has done the unthinkable: she threw shade at the Kardashians. Batten down the hatches, people, because we could be in for a real storm. The 24-year-old recently Snapchatted a duckface™ selfie and bravely captioned it: “I look like a Kardashian, nose job and all.”
Here it is:
OH NO SHE DIDN'T
Plastic surgery is a sensitive topic for the Kardashian klan. Despite much speculation that they've all had work done, Kim has (mostly) denied it. As has Khloé.
This wouldn't be the first time Kate Upton and Kim Kardashian have tangled. Back in 2013, after Upton was featured doing her best Marilyn Monroe on the cover of Vanity Fair, Kim's then-bf (now hubbie) Kanye West said:
Kate Upton ain't Marilyn Monroe, Kim is Marilyn Monroe. You know that. She was controversial. She [is] controversial.”
Kate, we admire your courage. Now best of luck to you! We all saw how Kim's last feud played out for Taylor.
Sources on the set of her new E! reality show, Mariah's World, debuting in December, told Radar Online...
"Mariah insisted that people only shoot her on one side, and she demanded to review all of the footage shot to make sure she looked as beautiful as possible..."
Also that...
"Mariah says she cannot work for more than six hours at a time because she said that anything over that will make her sick..."
And that...
"She refused to eat anything from craft services... Mariah will pretty much only eat chef-prepared meals that are cooked for her on the spot!”
When Cher speaks, gay people listen. It's a proven fact. Which is why when she told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell about Donald Trump, "My people will not believe him," gay ears started to itch (full disclosure: this author's ears did indeed itch).
In response to Trump's quote, "As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology," she said...
"He says those letters like a child that's just learning the alphabet, and then pokes his finger in the air for 'Q.' He's the most disingenuous man I've ever seen, and I want to tell you, my people will not believe him for a minute."
Cher has been an outspoken supporter of Hillary Clinton, headlining a fundraiser for her recently, and filling her Twitter timeline with emoji-laden tweets in all caps.
DONT GIVE A🤐WORD,WHAT ANY1 THINKS...I WILL SUPPORT HILL,2THE END‼️SHES SMART,STRONG,HARD WORKER, TRUST HER TEMPERAMENT& TRUST HER W/CODES 🇺🇸
But considering her take-no-prisoner attacks on Trump, the Clinton campaign should seriously consider using Cher as a surrogate. It's like her famous slap from Moonstruck was a foreshadowed message from the 80's for modern-day America to…
Today in "Sexist man has sexist answer to sexism in the workplace," recruiter Bruce Hurwitz has all the answers. According to Hurwitz's now-viral LinkedIn post, "When interviewing for a job, lose the ring!", ladies should take off their jewelry because it just makes them seem too damn high maintenance. It's almost as mind-blowing as the fact that there are viral LinkedIn posts:
Even though I had not been introduced to her, and despite the fact that, at that moment, I was alone with five women all of whom were wearing engagement rings, I said, "Lose the rock!" Everyone looked at me. The woman had the Hope Diamond on her finger. She, and my colleagues, asked for an explanation. When a man sees that ring he immediately assumes you are high maintenance. When the woman at the office who has the largest diamond on her finger, sees that ring, she will realize that if you are hired she will fall to second place and will, therefore, not like you. Lose the ring!
This post will use exclusively Mad Men GIFs for obvious reasons.
According to him, it worked, and the woman scored a job on her very next interview, the only difference in her performance being the absence of her rock. Obviously, the fact that she got the job has everything to do with not wearing a ring, and nothing at all to do with the company's needs or the nature of the position.
As Cosmopolitan points out, "Can you imagine a recruiter telling men to ditch their wedding bands because they look too expensive' and will thus immediately disgust all the ladies in the office?" Or is this one of the many sexist double standards that exist because many men are like babies who can't look away from the shiny thing?
With the criticism and attention coming his way, Hurwitz doubled down on his argument, saying, "So when a male interviewer sees what appears to be an expensive engagement ring he assumes the wearer is, as I said in the article, 'high maintenance.' He may be willing to have a high-maintenance woman in his personal life; he doesn’t necessarily want one in his office.”
In an email to Time,Hurwitz continues to see no problem with this suggestion, saying:
I honestly don’t understand what the fuss is all about. Interviewers have eyes; they look at the applicants. They see what they wear; they note their hygiene; they look at their behavior.
Remember: it's on you not to make dudes uncomfortable, not on dudes to know not to make ridiculous assumptions.
Amanda Bynes, after months of being absent on Twitter, is tweeting again. Don't worry! She seems like she's in a better place, mentally! She's also (sort of) in school, attending the for-profit Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
Hi everybody! I haven't tweeted in a long time and I want to say hi! I've been really busy at FIDM, and I just finished my midterms.
Bynes, once primarily known for being a talented comedic actress, famously had a public breakdown three years ago. We're glad to see she's happy and has been working hard out of the public spotlight these past few years.
Porn stars are supposed to be the grizzled veterans of sex, comfortable with discussing (or doing) virtually anything with absolute ease—but everyone was Barely 18 once, and everyone had their first day. This Wood Rocket video features mostly women alongside two men, one of which got his start in a weird frat house with a pushy audience (upon whom he got his revenge). Nerves were high for many people, but as befits the profession, many were already down for whatever. A few of the actresses had their first day on set with a husband or significant other, some eased into it by being extras before being the main talent, and some got to be on the other end of tied-on phalluses. There's more than one entry way in porn, apparently.
Whatever Beyoncé does becomes a news item. From album releases to concert videos, it's like she can't even post a few pictures to Facebook without taking over the media. Literally. Bey just posted some behind-the-scenes pics from the making of her new album Lemonade to Facebook, and guess what? It's news now.
Yep, her sitting in a chair is newsworthy.
Beyoncé playing a casual game of tug-of-war is newsworthy.
Is Beyoncé surrounded by fire newsworthy? Yes.
Just watch, this photo will be used in a future news items about buses.
This will be the photo your 5 o'clock news station leads with on Halloween.
Admit it, you were curious about what Eleven a.k.a. Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things looked like with hair. Well, she read your mind (if you've seen the show, you know she can do this and a lot more).
Set to the tune of Beyonce's "Pretty Hurts" -- because what other music accompanies a shaving head video -- the video shows Brown bravely getting paid to cut off her beautiful hair.
Stephen Colbert, like many hosts, makes a point of personally warming up his studio audience before hosting the Late Show (you can see him tell the adorable story here of how he met his wife), and recently he was asked to recount the weirdest thing that ever happened to him on the streets of New York City. As it turned out, Colbert couldn't think of an incident from NYC or Chicago (where Colbert came up as a comedian), but had a story he wanted to tell from filming The Daily Show in Arizona. Out there, far from South Carolina where he grew up or the cities where he did comedy, Stephen had a chance encounter that helped bring him new memories about his dad.
Remember Katie, aka "'Reeba Deeba," the bassist from School of Rock? She was one of Mr. Schneebly/Dewey/Jack Black's most promising students and the lone female member of the band (other than the back-up singers). Well, 13 years later, she's an actual rock star.
Katie played bass in the band.
Former child actress Rebecca Brown, who played Katie, now plays bass (which she originally learned for the movie) and sings lead in a band:
A video posted by Becca Brown. (@usuallybeccabrown) on
She also writes her own music. Like this song "Sorry" which has a feminist message about the way women over-apologize.
"It's not okay for girls to pout or speak up or be strong. We ladies have been taught to say 'sorry' for so long," she sings. "Some of you may not realize this is a fucking satirical song."
Katie would've been psyched to find out this is who she grew up to be. If only all child stars could grow into adult versions of the bad ass kids they played in movies. Except maybe that girl from The Ring (don't worry, she didn't).
On Wednesday, photos of French police officers forcing a woman to remove her burkini on a beach in Nice went viral, stoking worldwide outrage. Officers in Nice reportedly wrote the mother of two a ticket for "not wearing 'an outfit respecting good morals and secularism.'" Here are 23 reactions on social media from people trying to make sense of the ban on full length swimming outfits.
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I kind of think ISIS would not be cool with the burkini just a guess https://t.co/ROrdrW7Yfu
