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Twitter's relentlessly trolling United Airlines with #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos.

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On Monday, the internet lost its mind over a traumatizing video of a United Airlines passenger being dragged from the plane against his will.

United overbooked the flight from Chicago to Louisville and asked four passengers to voluntarily vacate their seats for United employees, the New York Timesreports. When a 69-year-old doctor was chosen at random and refused, he was subsequently physically forced off the plane by officers from the Chicago Department of Aviation. The man sustained visible injuries as the authorities manhandled him and passengers cried out in protest.

After the United CEO's apology did nothing to quell the social media outcry over the footage, a new hashtag cropped up—this one offering helpful new slogans in the form of #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos.

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Ludacris' CGI abs in his new music video are so bad, they are almost good?

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Ludacris just released the video for his new song "Vitamin D," but there is one thing featured in it that is majorly distracting— and no, we are not talking about all the half-naked women.

The Fast and Furious actor can be seen around the 11 second mark rocking some insanely bad CGI abs and pecks, and they are actually ludicrous. Check it out.

Of course, Twitter had a field day with the botched special effects.

Even Luda was able to laugh at himself.

But he did reveal that the special effect was a deliberate choice.

Uh, whatever you say!

Plus, this isn't the first time Ludacris has enhanced his body for a music video. Remember his giant arms in the 2004 video for "Get Back"?

Oh, Luda. You and your average body are perfect just the way you are.

The ironic song Ryan Reynolds played while Blake Lively was in labor will make you laugh.

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In this video, actor Blake Lively and fashion designer Michael Kors play a game of Fact or Fiction. It's revealed that Michael Kors' mother was the first woman to try out for the NFL, and that Blake Lively's childhood crush was David Letterman. They also reveal what song Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds played while she was in labor—and the answer will make you laugh.

It turns out Ryan Reynolds played Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" while Blake Lively was in labor, which is great, because getting it on is exactly what led to the labor in the first place (side note: apparently that's Michael Kors' favorite song). Lively tells Kors, "My doctor was laughing so hard that I thought she was going to drop our baby."

Check out the video for other random facts about Michael Kors and Blake Lively, like the fact that they both had pets whose names were just numbers.

Furious homeowner forces woman who wouldn't pick up her chihuahua's poop to do the unthinkable.

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In a new viral video, a confrontation between a rage-filled homeowner and a lazy dog owner turns stinky, and now the whole internet is gagging. It all started when a man realized that one of his neighbors was repeatedly letting her chihuahua poop on his sidewalk without scooping it. Furious at having his kids exposed to the little dog's filth, he confronted the woman and her boyfriend. Then things got really nasty. Be warned, if you watch this, you may never stop cringing.

Yuck.

Mom shares side-by-side video of pregnancy with twins versus carrying just one. It's eye-popping.

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Natalie Bennett is a vlogger, a mother of two toddler twins, and she's 36-weeks pregnant with a baby girl. Suffice to say, she's pretty busy.

But Natalie Bennett still makes time to create and edit her own videos, and in one that's caught the attention of Imgur for an incredible side-by-side image, she's taken to YouTube to compare the differences between being pregnant with twins and being pregnant with a single baby.

Her reflections are more in depth than the following side-by-side, although it's admittedly eye-popping.

That's Bennett pregnant at 36 weeks with her twins on one side and at 36 weeks with her one baby on the other. Can you tell which is which?

Bennett reflected on that image:

I had a huge body by the end. My belly was so ridiculously large it looks inhuman. ... The thumbnail of it is downright shocking. People look at it and they go 'oh my gosh what am I looking at.'

"I had a huge torpedo belly sticking out like a freaking shelf," she elaborated, hilariously. "It was so heavy."

Now carrying a single baby, Bennett says she's fatigued, tired, short of breath, getting up in the middle of the night, dealing with her two-and-a-half year old twin boys... and it's still a bit more relaxing than her pregnancy with the twins.

"The pregnancy itself was so much less comfortable than what it is now," says the amazing Natalie Bennett. "I had twice as many doctors appointments."

That's because twin pregnancies are classified "high risk" no matter what. ​​​​​​"I would say that this pregnancy just overall has been more convenient because it has been so straightforward," said Bennett, qualifying that she's speaking just from her personal experience. She had to travel extra distance to the specialist, she developed PUPPS rash, and her tummy had never stretched out before.

Now she has experience, and the added advantage of not having twins.

"One baby is so much more straightforward than a pregnancy with multiples."

Thor has a dramatic new haircut and the internet is freaking out.

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Out of all of the exciting things that came from the release of the official teaser trailer for the upcoming movie Thor: Ragnarok, one thing got the most attention: Thor's dramatic new 'do.

Check it out:

Oh, and it looks like Loki got a perm! What, did the brothers have a spa day or something?

Anyway, the internet is pretty much losing its collective mind over Thor's much shorter haircut for the new film, and everyone seems to be mourning the loss of the demigod's long, golden locks.

However, some people are fans of Thor's new look.

Remember, no matter what is going on atop his head, Thor is always very, very pretty.

Maybe he's born with it, maybe it's Norse mythology.

Chrissy Teigen makes beauty student's dream come true, internet weeps.

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Mercedes Edney is a skin care consultant who owns a company called Ixora Botanical Beauty. About a month ago, Edney started an online fundraiser to help raise money for her beauty school tuition.

Edney had only raised $400 of her $6,000 goal until one of her more generous followers decided to pay the difference.

Turns out the mysterious stranger is actually pretty famous. It was Chrissy Teigen.

Edney could barely keep it together after she realized that Chrissy Teigen was the one who helped pay off her beauty school tuition. (Can you blame her?)

Teigen responded, telling Edney she was excited for her to be able to pursue her dream.

Edney still couldn't quite believe what was happening, but she was very grateful and said she was already using the money to pay for school.

People on Twitter couldn't handle Teigen's awesome show of generosity.

Aww!

Guy pierces his own penis and winds up sending his Tinder date to the hospital. Years later.

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One brave man, known on Reddit as sheerpariah, has come forward with the embarrassingly personal story of how his teenage decision to pierce his own penis came back to haunt him, and a nice young lady he met on Tinder, years later. He posted his chilling tale to the popular r/TIFU forum, which stands for "Things I F*cked Up." Once you read the story, you'll realize there's no better place for it. He titled his masterpiece: "TIFU by having a pierced penis."

Specifically, a Prince Albert which goes through the urethra and out the base of the head of the penis. Kinda like a nose ring in your talleywhacker. Sorta.

I self performed this peircing many many moons ago when I was in high school. I was not normal. I have to say though, it did get me some curiosity loving on two occasions.

This was not a large ring as PA's go but PA's tend to be insanely large. Mine was an 8ga. The novelty wore off after a few years and I took it out. The hole never grew up. Never will. I have an 1/8 in extra hole on the head of my penis. I have to plug the hole to pee or sit down. I sit. Mistakes are TERRIBLE as I can urinate straight backward.

Thursday night, I had a Tinder "date" and because /r/iamverybadass we ended up at her apartment. (heavy sarcasm. She just needed a lay the same as me.)

Now, being the romantical type that I certainly am (and having been too drunk and leaving my car at the bar) I didn't immediately dash out on m'lady.

I woke at around 3 and proceeded to answer the other call of nature. Now, at this point I can make any number of excuses: it was cold, I'm a grower not a shower, fear of toilet lobsters...whatever. Fact is my dingaling was more "ding" no "aling" and was shriveled like a stack of dimes.

I retire to the nest of our passion and go back to sleep to be awakened by a bump and a shout. I jumped up and ran in and this poor woman is legs up on her back giggity in a puddle of my hours old urine. My shriveled winkie didn't have any dangle and I urinated straight out the front of the toilet and had no clue.

It gets better.

She is injured. This nice lady, who just wanted to get off (one upside is she did :) is now like a turtle on her back in a strange man's urine in her own home. Urine that she thinks is water from a leaky toilet. Really, would you have corrected her? Anyway, I just dropped her back off at home from the hospital. She had only a minor rotator. I know full well though that she will...probably already has...find out what that was. Stand by for update.

tl;dr I peed on a hookup's floor by mistake and she slipped in it and injured herself.

Needless to say, the people of Reddit has lots of questions. And to his credit, sheerpariah was more than happy to answer all of them.

But most people only wanted to give him grief about getting his wang pierced in the first place.

What we really need is a post from his date, to get her side of the story. But I've got a feeling she doesn't want to get involved.


A giggling Bill O'Reilly had the worst take on that United passenger being dragged off a flight.

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Leave it to Bill O'Reilly to laugh at something awful. On Monday night, the Fox News host talked about the now infamous clip of a doctor being dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight. As he watched the clip, O'Reilly laughed (laughed!), while telling Fox News correspondent Rob Schmitt, "I shouldn't be laughing, but it's just so bizarre."

It was definitely bizarre, but nothing about it was funny. According to Business Insider, O'Reilly didn't stop there. "They had to get some United Airlines personnel from Chicago to Louisville. . . they had to get them there, and so they asked for volunteers, and obviously, this guy didn't volunteer," Bill O'Reilly said, while still laughing.

Apparently, O'Reilly finally managed to stop laughing by the end of the segment, because he suddenly got serious, saying, "Can't have this kind of stuff — it looks like a police state." We can't believe we're saying this, but we actually agree with him on something.

Interesting that O'Reilly is in such a cheery mood, given the sexual harassment allegations against him and the recent spate of advertisers pulling out of his show.

Here are some texts the former Governor of Alabama sent to his mistress, courtesy of his ex-wife.

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A sex scandal involving the Governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, and a senior advisor named Rebekah Caldwell Mason has escalated to the point that the governor resigned on Monday, the New York Timesreported.

Governor Bentley's scandalous relationship with Rebekah Mason led to a "series of criminal investigations" into the governor's misuse of campaign funds and resulted in impeachment hearings on Monday morning. But that's not even the juicy part.

An attorney charged with investigating Bentley before his impeachment hearings filed a bombshell report on Friday filled with 3,000 salacious pages that, according to AL.com, "at times reads more like a cheap romance novel than a legal report."

The pages include a metric ton of intimate texts sent between the governor in the course of his affair, collected by none other than BENTLEY'S EX-WIFE from the governor's iPad.

But it wasn't just his wife's iPad connected to his unofficial business. The governor also likely, according to reports from 2016, bought multiple burner phones to text his mistress.

"Gov. Robert Bentley's ex-wife Dianne Bentley turned over a trove of text messages she captured using her iPad, which was connected to Gov. Bentley's iPhone," wrote AL.com. "Many of them are romantic texts between the governor and his aide, Rebekah Mason; others are between the governor and Dianne."

Here's a sampling:

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Bentley: Let's go away

Rebekah: Come away with me

Bentley: I'm ready

Bentley: Sweet thing

Rebekah: You handsome wonderful amazing delicious funny sweet man

Bentley: You are wonderful my sweet love

Bentley: I miss you

Rebekah: I am forever yours

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Bentley: I want you now

Rebekah: Come get me

Rebekah: You take such beautiful care of me

Bentley: I want to love you

Rebekah: I want that

Bentley: To touch you

Rebekah: I know that

Bentley: [Two heart emojis]

Bentley: I will dream of you

Rebekah: Good night sweet Robert. Dream of me

Rebekah: Please

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Bentley: You look beautiful and feel so soft

Rebekah: You sweet thing

Bentley: I'm so in love with you [heart eyes emoji] [heart eyes emoji]

Bentley: We are pitiful

Rebekah: Poor Rocky

Bentley: Poor Robert

Bentley: Poor Rebekah

Rebekah: Yes... Bless our hearts..

Rebekah: And other parts

Bentley: Magnetic

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Bentley: I love you Rebekah [heart eyes emoji] [heart eyes emoji]

Rebekah: Can you use your other phone?

Bentley: Sorry, no

Bentley: Hey

Bentley: I love you

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Bentley: Good morning

Bentley: Please let me know what number works

Rebekah: This one

Bentley: Does our phone work

Rebekah: No. My T Mobile does not.

Bentley: Well we may just have to delete

Rebekah: Your other phone works.

Bentley: What line will be best

Rebekah: You text this 205 number from your Private Rebekah phone.

Bentley: Ok did not think it worked only have this now . Will change in few minutes

Rebekah: It worked 9:38 last night

Read the full collection over at AL.com, if you can stomach it.

No one at work is better than me at covertly making travel plans.

Mom learns the hard way not to leave a toddler alone with raw eggs.

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Never trust a toddler. Those adorable little jerks get into everything, making messes and wreaking havoc everywhere they go. Case in point? This mother left her son, Bear, alone in the kitchen with a fridge full of eggs for two minutes while she cleaned her daughter's room. You can probably guess what happened next.

"Oh, I'm going to cry, and laugh, and scream and..." said the mother, having the most relatable reaction ever. "Somebody send help!"

Bear doesn't seem to mind that he made a slimy, raw omelet all over his mother's floor, and appears to be having the time of his life as he slips and slides all over the swamp of salmonella. All things considered, the kid got off pretty easy.

“Oh God it’s so bad but he’s so cute,” said Bear's mom. Agreed, but I only think that because I don't have to clean up his mess.

Mom thinks "furry convention" is for dogs, accidentally becomes the star.

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New York Media senior producer Kenny Wassus has a very special mother, Cheryl Wassus, and she has a very special therapy dog named Link. When Cheryl recently learned that the Motor City Furry Convention was coming to town, and that it was raising money for Pets for Vets (a charity that pairs dogs with veterans), she assumed it was a pet-themed event. She had never heard of furries, and what's furrier than a dog? She went to the con and brought Link along, expecting he would make every animal lover's day. And she was right—but not in the way she imagined.

As you can see from the photos Kenny shared, Link was a big hit.

They're bowing to his hyper-realistic dog suit.
This is the fuzziest hug in history.
Now it's starting to look like a Bigfoot video.

Kenny kept sharing Cheryl's pics. After a while, it became a little too much even for a trained therapy dog like Link.

Cheryl told select/all that although she had never heard of furries before, she quickly became comfortable with their fascinating culture, and learned a lot. Link, on the other hand, needed more time to adjust.

I had no idea I was walking into Furry Con. It was a little embarrassing at first because Link was just a little curious why people were wearing tails, so he was doing some serious tail-sniffing and checking out people. They weren’t offended, though, they just embraced him. It was all good. Just a real interested community.

In the end, Cheryl and Link even participated in a panel at the con, which raised $10,000 for Pets for Vets. And even though the experience was very positive, Cheryl explained that she isn't about to get into furry culture herself.

No, I don’t think so. No. You know, you get a little older, a little menopausal, and being in that many layers and layers of fur. No need to be overheating. I’m good.

Tell that to Link. He can't take his fur off.

Is Khloé Kardashian's latest Instagram photoshopped or is she a bobblehead now?

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Khloé Kardashian often causes a stir when she posts on social media (remember when we thought she was engaged?), and her latest Instagram has people all a flutter thinking she might have altered the image with... wait for it... Photoshop. (GASP!)

Here's the Instagram in question:

Many people accused Khloé of Photoshopping the picture.

Many called upon their friends to get their opinions on whether or not the photo had been altered.

(The best place to tell your friends someone looks weird is in that person's Instagram comments. )

And some thought that Khloé had miraculously made the transition from human to bobblehead overnight.

Is it true? Did Khloé Kardashian alter this photo? Has she turned into a bobblehead? We'll let you decide for yourself.

People are sharing their worst experiences on United Airlines. You may never want to fly again.

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In the wake of the United Airlines incident that saw a man be physically dragged from his seat on an overbooked flight, followed by a non-apology from the CEO, people are roasting United all over the internet. There are jokes galore on Twitter, but over on Reddit, with a little more space to work with, people are sharing their worst experiences flying with United. It turns out, lots of people have had bad experiences on the airline (although, it should be noted, none of them were quite as bloody).

Read on and hopefully it won't destroy your desire to ever travel again.

1. Thanks to United, Skinandtonic missed seeing his grandfather for the last time.

I was flying last minute from California to see my grandfather in Florida as his health was rapidly declining and my parents wanted me and my siblings to all see him one final time before he passed away. My dad and brothers flew out on United a few days before to meet other family members, but I had a test in school and had to fly out later than them as an unaccompanied minor. I was 13 at the time, and had to transfer in Chicago which is a nightmareish airport to connect at so my mom arranged for United to have a staff member take me off the first plane and to the gate to catch my connecting flight, which is a service they offer for some sort of fee.

I get to the airport and I'm checking in when they say that because my flight is the last one of the day, the connection accompaniment service isn't offered, even though we had confirmed booking it on the phone the day before. Even when we asked if I could just make the connection alone they said that not only could they not arrange an accompaniment, but because I was a minor they wouldn't let me on the flight even though my seat was already booked because they didn't think I could make the connection on my own and didn't want to have me cause trouble by getting lost in the connecting airport and potentially delaying the connecting flight.

Even worse, they wouldn't let me take a flight the next day (or the day after if I remember correctly) or move my ticket to another airline saying we'd have to buy an entirely new ticket and pursue a refund on the first ticket at a later time. We went home from the airport after several hours of trying to get me on any flight going to Florida at all but couldn't find a single ticket because it was so last minute. I never got to see my grandfather.

We did finally get a refund, just in time to spend that money on my ticket out for his funeral. Never flying United again and I encourage everyone I know not to fly with them either.

2. Sweetrhymepurereason had a rough experience traveling with United as a kid.

Once when I was 7 years old, I flew United as an unaccompanied minor. They bumped me off the flight without calling my family members and I was just sitting terrified at the gate for five hours with nobody talking to me or telling me what was going on. This was before cell phones were a real thing. My mom got to the airport at my destination and panicked when I didn't get off the plane. They tried to say I never even had a ticket. It took them a few more hours to actually call United at my departure airport, and that was with my mom escalating everything, sobbing, generally freaking out. They put me on the next plane which was another few hours. My parents got free domestic flights for a year but United never once apologized. Not once.

3. And so did Prailock.

I had this happen to me when I was a kid too! My brother and I got grounded early because of some issue with the landing gear when we were flying unattended minor to visit our grandparents. They didn't tell my parents if we were ok for hours after our plane had had an emergency landing that required them to foam the runway. We couldn't get into contact with anyone until we showed up in South Carolina and our grandparents were in tears not knowing if we were going to show up at all that night.

4. Katasian spent 26 hours trying to get from Kentucky to California.

After many delays for the most random things, "we didn't put enough gas in the plane", "we accidentally powered the plane on wrong", "we sat on the runway too long and missed our appointment for take off", etc. it took 26 HOURS for me and my SO to fly from Kentucky to California. By contrast, a direct flight should have been 4-5 hours.

We had 3 layovers (4 planes) and every delay in the book, which caused us to miss subsequent connections and have to be rescheduled, plus babies screaming on the overnight flights. United did not even so much as give us a meal ticket to compensate. I have literally flown to the Philippines faster, including layovers.

5. SoundBearier's suitcase was also a victim of United's abuse.

They ran the luggage truck over my suitcase. No reimbursement. There were actual fucking tire tracks on it.

6. Eggplanton's seat might as well have been on the tail.

My seat was in row 42 when there were only 36 rows on the plane.

7. Silverskeejee arrived in Ireland a day and a half later than expected.

4 days. 4 days to get home from Texas to Ireland.

First thunderstorms flooded the airport, not their fault.

On the second day I went in 5 hours early, figuring if anything happened I was at least there early to catch it. Nope. Flight crew didn't show, so that flight got bumped 3 hours after it was supposed to take off. Queue jumpers just got dealt with, so by the time I got to the front of the queue an hour later all the Dublin flights were gone so I asked tearfully for Shannon. No sympathy, no care, just 'here's your route you go to Dullas now'.

Spent overnight in Dullas utterly terrified out my wits (I don't travel solo well), so bad that by the time I got my flight to Newark I had a lady come ask me if she wanted to pray for me.

12 hour layover in Newark.

Finally got home Monday lunchtime. I was supposed to arrive Saturday morning.

Sod that airline. I swore I'd never fly with them again.

8. Slopduck made it halfway to the correct destination. Better than nothing, right? Maybe not.

A few years ago I was flying to Denver (probably from Newark) for Christmas. There was an impending storm in Denver so no one was sure if the flight was going to happen or not, all the flights after ours had already been cancelled, but they decided ours would beat the storm so they let us take off. We got to about an hour in and they closed the Denver airport, so they landed the plane in Chicago and basically just let everyone fend for themselves. Whatever, I just skipped the gigantic line at customer service and went to the counter for the next flight back to New York. That was fine, they got me on and I went home. The issue came when I wanted a refund. Here was their line:

We'll give you back 50% of the ticket price, because we got you halfway there.

I'm not kidding. It took weeks of fighting for them to finally issue a refund.

9. Hey_sjay's boss' luggage had a wonderful vacation.

Not me, but my boss. They delayed his flight for hours before finally cancelling it. He didn't make it to Guatemala, but his luggage somehow did. Took him weeks to get it back.

10. Sydthebarrett finally managed to get checked in for a flight that had already left.

It was my last flight of a 3 flight trip home. My seat number said "NO" on it for my final flight from Philly to RI....should have been my indicator. Get to the gate early "You cannot board this flight you are not checked in" "Maam, I checked into this flight in Oklahoma yesterday, and printed all of my boarding passes at 5 am this morning. This is not possible. How am I not checked in?" Literally couldn't say anything other than you're not checked in I cannot find your reservation over and over. Ask for a manager. No manager. Tells us to go to customer service. Go to customer service. See the 3 most useless slugs of babbling humans there. When we explain what happen they just tell us we need to resolve it at the gate, they cant do anything. I could be a lot more rude and upset about this situation but I try to hold back. They get off at angry people in the airport. I get back to gate. They've now given mine and my work partners seats to someone on standby. WHY? I have my stuff right here....these work tickets were booked months out, this wasn't a last minute thing. Plane starts backing away from terminal. Manager finally arrives. Hits all of 4 buttons. "Here, they are right here" Thats all it took. Plane already left. Offered me a 200 flight voucher good for one year. At that point it took everything for me to not punch someone. Rented a car and angrily drove from Philly to RI. Picked up my luggage and the pelican case my camera gear was in was broken with damaged camera gear. Nothing was refunded or replaced. Fuck them and fuck "Overbooking" flights.

11. Mashandal decided to take a bus instead, but he couldn't get his bag to join him.

I was on a 8AM flight from NYC to Milwaukee (MKE) with a layover in Chicago. The ETA for MKE was 2-3PM.

Delays upon delays in NYC, and it was a bit weird because the plane was really empty. Well whatever, we finally fly out, landing in Chicago at 2PM. Naturally, the connecting flight was missed so I need to catch the next one. The agents assure me that the next one, at 5PM will be all set. I'm already somewhat pissed at this point because I'm impatient and was supposed to be in MKE for a conference that started at 4/5.

But no worries, shit happens, so I decide to go to the airport bar and proceed to order the largest beer they have because I know it's going to be a couple of hours until the next flight. Not 30 seconds later, I get a text that my 5PM flight was canceled due to inclement weather. THERE'S NOT A FUCKING CLOUD IN SIGHT. This is when it gets interesting.

Next flight is at 11PM and they're saying there's no guarantees that I'll have a seat so I'll probably need to catch the next morning's flight. I have business meetings all day the next morning so I really need to get to Milwaukee asap. I start looking at other options - there's a $50 bus that I figured was my best bet. But wait, what about luggage? So apparently, United has all the luggage in this big room in the Chicago airport, and a staff person said that they can't give me access to my bag so I'll have to wait until it's flown to Milwaukee, only god knows when. I tell them I have medication in the bag that I need - they still refuse. I ask to see a manager, and I swear to god, they send out an 18-year-old to talk to me.

So they won't give me my bag, can't find a spot on any other plane and won't pay for another airline's flight, won't pay for the bus, won't pay for a hotel stay in Chicago overnight.

I ended up paying the $50 for the bus, had to take a taxi to the Milwaukee airport next morning to get my bag from claims, and vowed never to fly United ever again.

12. Brownie285 is just lucky she's not tall.

Oh yess. Ive been waiting for this thread. I had the worst flight experience of my life on united. I was flying from new england to ireland. There and back were both united. There and back both hell. So getting there was an over night flight (depart around 7/8pm, land at 6/8 am). They wouldn't let us sleep. We were not allowed to sleep. So we were late boarding since they wanted to clean the plane after the last flight so heres the timeline:

9pm - Take off

10pm - Dinner

11pm - Dessert

Now if you fell asleep once you finished eating dinner, thet would shake you and yell until you woke up. No idea why. Around midnight they dimmed the lights and most fell asleep. Then suddenly, im being shaken awake. Around 1am we crossed timezones. So now theres breakfast. And flight attendants are going up and down isles waking anyone who wont eat and try to sleep. Then we landed. It was unreal.

Its also worth mentioning that during the flight they werw legit screaming at anyone who stood up to go to the bathroom because they wanted the isles clear. And, i cant emphasize enough how small this plane was. Im a tiny girl, and i was unable to move. I felt so bad for tall people. But, if anyone had their leg even slightly in the isle (even if theyre asleep), the attendants would kick them or hit them with the cart over and over until they brought it in. They would go up and down the isles yelling "I BETTER NOT SEE LEGS, SO HELP ME ILL KICK THEM BACK IN".

The leg in my row in the isle seat accudentally made one of the attendants stumble by sticking his foot out. The attendant stopped and glared at this guy lile he was going to kill him and yelled "WHAT DID I SAY?!" then turned to the rest of the flight and yelled "THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND!!"

Never in my life have i seen anyone on the job, especially a service job act so violently and uncontrollable

Tl,dr: on an 8 hr flight over night, we werent allowed to sleep, go to the bathroom, or put legs remotely in the isle or we'd be shaken or screamed at.

13. Ihateunited24 made a Reddit account just to complain about United. No joke.

When I was 17, my dad and I took cheap flights to visit colleges I was applying to. We flew United all of once, from Wichita KS to Chicago. On the flight back to Wichita, we were delayed for a couple of hours due to maintenance issues. Oh well, we weren't in any rush, so we relaxed and ended up taking off after everything was solved.

When we landed in Wichita, the pilot sheepishly came onto the intercom and told us that the main engine had blown in midair, but that the "backup engine" allowed us to fly to our destination! Instead of making an emergency landing when the part that made the fucking plane run petered out, the pilot decided to keep going, despite the fact that he was likely endangering all of our lives if the second engine decided to quit.

My father and I freaked out. We ended up complaining to United customer service, who gave us a half-hearted apology about 2 months after the fact and gave me (not my dad, just me) a $50 flight voucher that expired at the end of the month. They gave us the voucher in April 28th and it expired May 1st.

Fucking awful airline. I haven't flown them since. American Airlines can be a pain in the ass, but at least they have their shit together.


Everything you need to know about United's latest scandal: dragging a man off a flight.

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The internet's been abuzz with news, reactions, and fury directed at United Airlines after passengers on a flight shared multiple videos of a man being forcibly removed from his seat. It's a complicated story that has had many twists and turns seemingly on the hour—here's an best explanation of everything that has happened, so far:

The flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, was scheduled to take off on Sunday at 5:40 p.m, according to the New York Times.

Before boarding for the flight began, United realized the flight was overbooked. This is normal, as airlines "routinely sell tickets to more people than the plane can seat," according to the Times, to account for possible no-shows. When a flight ends up with too many travelers, the airline offers vouchers to customers who will willingly give up their seats.

But on Sunday, United couldn't get enough people to voluntarily skip the flight. According to NJ.com, they needed the seats so United employees could make it to Kentucky to get on other flights. This logic apparently did nothing to sway the paying customers. Then four people were, apparently, chosen at random and asked to leave the flight.

According to a United spokesman, "we had asked several times, politely," that Dr. David Dao—the man in the following video— leave the plane, and he refused. Then this happened:

Subsequent videos of Dr. Dao, bloody and disoriented, made everything that much worse:

In being physically forced off the plane by officers from the Chicago Department of Aviation, the 69-year-old doctor sustained visible injuries as the authorities manhandled him and his head bashed against an armrest.

Passengers cried out in protest, and their tweets of the incident went massively viral. Social media lit on fire with anger at United.

The officer in the video was put on leave, and the Chicago Department of Aviation security said "the actions of the... officer are obviously not condoned," according to theChicago Sun-Times.

On Monday, the CEO of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz, offered an apology in the face of the outrage. According to CNBC, this is the statement he released:

This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers. Our team is moving with a sense of urgency to work with the authorities and conduct our own detailed review of what happened.

But his non-apology apology—specifically the phrase "re-accomodate"—only made things worse for United Airlines on Twitter:

As the controversy continued, the ever-tactful Bill O'Reilly became a target of outrage for laughing while discussing the incident:

And Jimmy Kimmel savaged United with a parody advertisement for the airlines:

Meanwhile, a hashtag started trending on Twitter, just in case United Airlines didn't realize what a public relations debacle they had stumbled into.

(Worth noting, also, is a Twitter controversy from late March involving United Airlines, when United refused to allow two young girls from boarding the airplane because they were wearing leggings.)

On Tuesday, the controversy showed no signs of receding. The United CEO sent a letter to his employees, which was quickly given to the media. In it, Oscar Munoz was unrepentant, blaming the victim of the incident for being "disruptive and belligerent."

From USA Today, here are excepts of Munoz's letter to employees:

"This situation was unfortunately compounded when one of the passengers we politely asked to deplane refused, and it became necessary to contact Chicago Aviation Security Officers to help," the letter says. "While I deeply regret this situation arose, I also emphatically stand behind all of you, and I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond to ensure we fly right."

Munoz conceded, however, that "there are lessons we can learn from this experience," and he promised an investigation. Chicago aviation officials placed a security officer on leave, saying the incident "was not in accordance with our standard operating procedure."

The victim-blaming was compounded on Tuesday when Dao's criminal record was exposed by the Courier-Journal, as if it was relevant to the assault he endured on Sunday. David Dao, they said, "is familiar to many Kentuckians who recall his convictions on drug-related offenses in 2004." Many on Twitter quickly came to his defense against those who would use the report to justify the violent incident.

Check back here as the controversy continues to evolve.

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Katy Perry got an extreme haircut and now people think she looks like Justin Bieber.

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If you think you've had a roller coaster of a year, your adventures pale compared to the wild ride happening on top of Katy Perry's head.

First the 32-year-old singer dyed her signature brunette locks blonde. Then, last month, she chopped off her hair and shaved the sides. Which is all the rage this year (or any year if you're Kim Jong-un).

And THEN, just as we were settling in to life with Katy Perry's new haircut, she went and did this, without even warning us first:

✨fifth element flow✨

A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on

That's right, she pulled a Kristen Stewart, and no one saw it coming. According to the caption, "fifth element flow," Perry thinks she looks like Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element.

But most people seem to think she looks more like Justin Bieber, and someone named "Halsey" who I just learned about today. Apparently they all look the same.

We have to figure this out. Who do you think Katy Perry looks like with her new haircut?

Halsey?

One of my favorite looks from this very busy week. 🌹

A post shared by halsey (@iamhalsey) on

Justin Bieber?

Bruce Willis in 1997 fantasy classic film-that-changed-my-life-forever, The Fifth Element?

Eminem when he was blonde for a while?

This hamster?

Hammy Biebster

And more importantly: is Katy Perry okay? Because once I changed my haircut three times in a 3-month period and yes I had just gone through a breakup and no, I was not taking it well. So, I get it, Katy Halsey Stewart Bieber—I mean Perry. Big hugs!

Sorry your cat doesn't remotely care about National Pet Day.

Twitter aggressively fact-checks Sean Spicer's tragically inaccurate claim about Hitler.

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During a press conference at the White House on Tuesday, Press Secretary Sean Spicer once again invited the jeers of the internet by making a poorly-thought-out comparison between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and OG Nazi Adolph Hitler.

Referring to Assad's use of gas in an attack that killed dozens, including children, last Tuesday, Spicer said that even someone "as despicable as Hitler" didn't "sink to using chemical weapons." Spicer seemingly forgot that Hitler did use chemical weapons, specifically gas, to execute millions of Jews, Romani, homosexuals, and handicapped people during the Holocaust. Luckily, the people of Twitter were there to remind Spicer of his little oopsie.

For once, Spicer got a chance to explain himself during the press conference. A reporter, who immediately grasped the problem with his claim, asked him to explain it. Then Spicer gratefully dug his hole ten times deeper.

Spicer said, "He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Ashad [sic] is doing… He was bringing them into the Holocaust centers." Of course, Twitter was paying attention.

And that wasn't even the only problem.

Did it end there? Of course not.

It's hard to imagine that Sean Spicer's life could get any more humiliating. Then again, I have that thought every day.

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