On Wednesday night, Trump held a terrifying rally in Greenville, North Carolina.

During the rally, Trump doubled down on his dislike of the four progressive congresswomen he told to"go back to their country," in a previous tweet. These four congresswoman include Alexandria Ocazio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, all of whom are women of color.

Trump's tweets were quickly derided, both by the congresswomen themselves and others who noted the racism and inaccuracy of telling American women to "go back to their own countries."

Unfortunately, Trump doubled down on those racist sentiments at his rally on Wednesday, and lead the crowd in a terrifying chant of "send her back," in reference to Ilhan Omar.

Footage of the chant quickly made the round on Twitter where people compared it to other fascist rallies throughout history, and noted how violent the rhetoric towards Omar is.

In fact, even outspoken conservative Piers Morgan, who has come for AOC and Omar online, called out Trump's racism.

A lot of Republicans have spoken up against the Wednesday rally, joining the chorus of concerned Democrats and leftists.

Omar responded to the chant in a tweet last night captioned: "I am where I belong, at the people's house and you're just gonna have to deal!"

Following the flurry of virulent hatred, people in started the #IStandWithIlhan hashtag to express support and condemn Trump's fascism. Both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were included in the ranks of people expressing solidarity.

On Thursday morning, following immense backlash from people across the political spectrum, Trump backpedaled on the chant during a photo session with reporters in the Oval Office.

When pressed by reporters, Trump claimed he quickly tried to stop the chant, but it was inaudible in recordings. "I was not happy with it — I disagree with it," he stated.

Fittingly, Trump's disavowal looks more like classic gaslighting inspired by immense backlash than actual regret. But if he actually means it, next time he could confront his supporters rather than stoking their xenophobia and distancing himself when convenient.

As Trump's reelection campaign kicks off with the promise of even more racism, a federal court in New York released documents on one of the crimes that helped him get into office in 2016.

New materials in the Michael Cohen case reveal that the FBI believed Donald Trump to be closely involved in a scheme to transfer and hide hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, a campaign finance violation for which Cohen is now in prison.

The court documents reveal the FBI's search warrants for Cohen's many crimes, which include bank fraud (boring) and stuff with taxi medallions (everyone uses uber). But the most interesting and salacious is what is referred to as "The Illegal Campaign Contribution Scheme," and it outlines how in the fallout of the Grab Them By The Pussy tape, Trump and his minions sought to silence Stormy Daniels from telling her story about having an affair with Trump while Melania was nursing Barron. The extent to which the president was involved in the scheme has been previously undisclosed.

Here's what the FBI agent wrote, on page 41 of the document, if you're following along:

From my review of telephone toll records and information produced pursuant to the iCloud Warrant and Cohen Email Warrant, I hae learned that in the days following the Access Hollywood video, Cohen exchanged a series of calls, text messages and emails with Keith Davidson, who was then Clifford's attorney, David Pecker and Dylan Howard of American Media Inc. ("AMI"), the publisher of the National Enquirer, Trump, and Hope Hicks, who was then press secretary for Trump's presidential campaign. Based on the timing of these calls, and the content of the text messages and emails, I believe that at least some of the communications concerned the need to prevent Clifford from going public, particularly in the wake of the Access Hollywood story.

The unsealed documents include a tick tock on how the scheme was enacted and hidden, and the previously undisclosed ways in which Trump and Hicks were directly involved. Highlights:

October 8, 2016, 7:20

"Cohen received a call from Hicks. Sixteen seconds into the call, Trump joined the call, and the call continued for over four minutes."

October 26, 2016, 8:26 AM

"Cohen called Trump and spoke to him for approximately three minutes. At 8:34 AM, Cohen called Trump again and connected for a minute and a half."

At 9:04 AM, Cohen emailed the person who incorporated his Delaware LLCs through which he funneled the hush money, saying, "can you send me asap the filing receipt."

October 27, 2016

Cohen made the payment of $130,000 to Keith Davidson, Stormy's lawyer, "for the purpose of securing her ongoing silence with respect to the allegations that she had an extramarital affair with Trump."

For some reason, it's a Department of Justice tradition that a sitting president cannot be indicted, leaving the power of accountability up to the Congress. While Trump will continue to roam free and golf and spew hate from a podium, these docs are bad news for Hope Hicks.

The former model-turned-White House employee (no, not Ivanka, the other one), told the House Judiciary Committee just last month that she knew nothing, Jon Snow.

That's why her hair is so big. It's full of secrets.

Remember the time Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about an affair? Those were the days.

You may have thought that you have seen it all, but there still new innovations in pranking and trollery. Twitter user @ClutchandCoast claimed to have taken universal disdain for choosing beggars by luring him into a dangerous place that is nothing if not a punishment: a comedy club.

This is, without a doubt, a d*ck move, but hey—we weren't the ones who had to schlep to the comedy club!

The tweet went viral without over one million (!!!) likes, and isn't the only prank of its kind.

The prankster is being hailed as a hero.

He's also being criticized for being disrespectful—or worse—a faker.

Either way, it was a fun twenty seconds reading the post.

Staying at an Airbnb can be far weirder than any hotel experience. For one, you're usually staying in someone's actual home, which means it's likely there will be locked closets and corners full of items you're not supposed to look at (which makes snooping even more enticing).

Secondly, because it's someone's home, each Airbnb has a different household philosophy. In practice, this usually means hosts keep a few rules for their guests, which usually fall under the umbrella of basic common courtesy. But in rare exceptions, there are hosts with rules so strict the Airbnb feels more like a boot camp than a vacation spot.

The Twitter user Ian Hickton found himself baffled and amused during a recent Airbnb stay, when he read a list of tedious bathroom rules that almost felt like satire.

He wrote that the rules reminded him of thecharacters Harvey and Val from the British comedy League of Gentlemen. For those unfamiliar with the show, the characters are notorious for making up absurd and confusing house rules to mess with guests.

The rules included a hard-to-follow lists of steps for every regular bathroom activity.

The rules read:

"Please try your best to use the washbasin without splashing the mirror. May I suggest, as a sign of courtesy to the person using the bathroom after yourself, that before leaving the bathroom you wipe dry the chrome water tap and the washbasin using the towel provided."

The floor mat directions are deeply, pathologically specific.

"Before taking a shower, please lay the provided floor mat on the floor. When finished please put it back on the radiator to dry. If you are likely to splash the floor when using the washbasin, please do the same when using it."

The before-and-after shower instructions read more as a manifesto, full of the lifeblood and neurotic passions of the mysterious Airbnb host.

"After taking a shower please use the squeegee provided to remove any water clinging onto the glasses, onto the tiles and onto the window in the first floor bathroom. When finished with the squeegee please use the towel that you will find in the bathroom (not your personal one that you will find in your bedroom) to finish the job of drying the inside of the shower)."

The rules even include a graphic paragraph dedicated to the toilet brush, in case guests have never cleaned a toilet before.

"The purpose of the toilet brush is to remove any signs of your passage, of whatever colour, from inside the toilet (above and below the water line), from the toilet rim and from the underside of the toilet seat. The use of the toilet brush is not optional. Please make sure you do not leave any traces of your passage."

Last, but certainly not least, the rules include a request that "gentlemen" sit down for all of their bathroom needs.

"Gentlemen, it would be highly appreciated if you took the seat for both number one and number two. Please make sure that when you leave the bathroom, the floor is dry."

People on Twitter were quick to add their burning questions atop the pile of intense rules.

Honestly, the wording of the rules inspire shudders in countless people.

One person pointed out the big subtext in the rules, which is the fact the hosts obviously don't want to do any cleaning before their next guests.

Hopefully, regardless of the rules, Hickton's stay went without a hitch, or traces of "passage."

"How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror."

-Keanu Reeves

Being an adult is scary, but at least the memes are funny. These babies will make you laugh and make you hella nostalgic for the good ole days. (I feel old just saying that.) Now, get the hell off my lawn and get to giggling at these awesome memes.

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In today's installment of the perils of being a woman, a 21-year-old woman shared her experience being "slut-shamed" by her nurse practicioner during a visit to urgent care for an STD check.

The woman recently had sex with someone she had only just met, and it was her first time hooking up with someone she had not "developed deep connections with."

Since this was her first ever one-night-stand, when she noticed some worrisome symptoms in her nether-regions (sorry for writing nether-regions, now twice), she got concerned.

I've [F21] recently encountered a new sexual partner. We used a condom, but after words I felt a little uneasy as to this was the first time I have ever hooked up with someone I just met. My previous sexual partners have all been someone I have developed deep connections with in some kind of way. While condoms greatly reduce the chance of contracting a STI, it cannot provide ABSOLUTE protection. A few days ago, I noticed my discharge changed to a white substance that's different from my normal discharge and the first thing that came to my head was an STD. I have never had one before and I have no idea the symptoms, but an STD was all I could think about.

So she decided to go to urgent care to find out what was up.

At the clinic, her nurse practicioner asked her a series of questions about her sexual history, which she answered honestly.

I went to an urgent care because I wanted to see if there was maybe a simpler answer to this problem (yeast infection or UTI) and if not, I wanted to send my urine off for an STD screening. My doctor asked me a series of questions (when did you become sexually active, when was your last sexual partner, how many sexual partners, etc.) , all of which I was up front and honest about so she could better treat me.

The woman was diagnosed with a yeast infection and scheduled for an STD test, but then just as she was leaving, things got really, really uncomfortable.

The nurse practicioner called her back in to the office and then proceeded to lecture her for her sexual choices, instructing her to "guard and protect her character." WTF?!

It came time for her to make a diagnosis and tell me the best course of action. She says based on my symptoms, I am showing hallmark signs of a yeast infection, but she will send my urine off for a culture and STD screen along with a swob from my vagina so she can tell what type of yeast is growing down there.

As I'm about to get my keys and stand up to walk out, she says "Dear, will you sit down for just another moment." I sat back down and looked up at her, curious as to what she wanted to talk about. "With all of that being said, you're 21 years old, you really need to guard and protect your character,". I looked at her like "what the fuck" and she continued "well you know, guys get to have sex all they want and nothing bad comes out of it for them but you know us as women we can't be doing that as much because we have to protect our character,". At this point, I was pretty fucking angry. You could tell by my silence and the way my lips were pressed together. I thought that maybe it couldn't get any worse, then she proceeded to say "you're going to want to have kids one day, and the way you're living your life now could really hurt you and your chances of having a kid with a good man,".

The woman, understandably, was furious and wants to report the nurse practicioner to HR for her unprofessional and straight-up offensive line of questioning.

So she took to Reddit to ask the infamous "Am I The A**hole?" forum to weigh in on whether she would be doing the right thing to report this woman to HR.

I was open and honest with this woman in hopes that it would help her better treat me and in turn I get slut shamed for it? I posted this in a forum about sexual education and I was getting advice to report her to HR. I don’t want to go after anybody’s job, but I don’t want other women to have to go through this same thing just for having sex.

Will I be the asshole if I report her to HR or should I leave it alone?

She also added that she was "in too much shock" at the time to respond, and simply said "thanks" and left.

Edit: For everybody asking, I was literally in too much shock to say anything to her at the moment. I just kind of stared at her because I immediately felt embarrassed and regretted the information I shared with her so openly. So after a couple of seconds she said “I appreciate your openness and honesty tho” (like that mattered after anything she just said 😩) and opened the door for me to leave so I just said “thanks” and left. I was too embarrassed and in too much shock to say anything in the moment. Trust me, I wish I would have but I wasn’t even thinking about going off on her. I was just embarrassed.

Also, she was a nurse practitioner. I know a couple of times I referred to her as a doctor, but her official title was NP.

Redditors weighed in, and overall most people are encouraging her to report the woman to HR, saying she would in no way be an a**hole for doing this.

inevitablegirlie says:

NTA. 150% report her to HR. Do it right now. This is rude, regressive, none of her business and could actually deter women from getting care. You'll be doing yourself and every other woman who walks through those doors a kindness.

And Excolo_Veritas, who is married to a doctor, concurs:

Agreed, this is insane. My wife is a doctor and would be appalled to hear if a colleague did this. There is never supposed to be judgement in medicine, because exactly as you said, it could cause patients to be less open in the future. They are not the police, or the morality police. They treat you, they're there to make you better. Sure, they may recommend to stay away from unsafe practices such as unprotected sex, but it's not supposed to be judgement. Just medically relevant information and best practices. This was ABSOLUTELY judgement, and bullshit. OP please report her! I guarantee she's done this to other women, and I guarantee some of them have thought twice about seeking treatment in the future because of it. It should be stopped

And dancer29, who is a nurse, writes:

Nurse here. What she was doing was not okay. We all take paths to take care of our patients ethically and treat them with care. We might recommend to use a condom but as you stated you were doing that. If you were my patient I would actually applauded you for having safe sex and still coming in just to make sure. It’s not okay to push your morals on someone else. Report the fuck out of her. NTA

Many people are pointing out that this kind of behavior from a nurse practicioner is not only rude and unprofessional but straight up dangerous, because it could prevent women from being honest about their sexual histories.

The woman followed up with an update on her situation. She took everyone's advice and called the clinic to report the woman.

She ended up speaking to the manager of the clinic and explained the whole situation, and how it could put other women at risk.

I called the urgent care and asked to speak with either a patient advocate or NP supervisor. They didn’t have a patient advocate and the doctor overseeing the NPs was out, so they let me talk to the manager of the clinic.

First and foremost, I explained to the manager that I in no means wanted any disciplinary action taken. I did not want her to lose her job, but maybe be given a talk or PIP to improve her service and not use personal beliefs or judgment when taking care of patients.

I explained to her everything that happened and before I could even say who the NP was, she knew EXACTLY who I was talking about...which confirmed that she’s most likely been this way towards other patients previously.

I then explained how I confided in her and that I came into the office for medical advice and not personal judgment and her using my openness to pass judgment has made me weary about being open with doctors in the future. I explained that her words didn’t hurt me, just my future interactions with health care providers AND future interactions with her other women patients.

The clinic manager guessed right away who she was talking about, which suggests this has happened in the past.

The manager was "very nice," and said she'd pass the complaint to the supervisor, who would give the woman a call.

The lady was very nice, and once my complaint was heard she said she’d “call the doctor (her supervisor)” right away and to expect a call from him on my cell. She also said she was placing a note and that the NP wouldn’t be back in the office until next Monday.

With all of that being said, thank you to everyone for your advice! You’ve truly been so helpful.

Glad this woman stuck up for herself, and all women, by reporting this nightmare nurse.

Can't believe this needs to be said in 2019, but slut-shaming is bad! Don't do it! Especially if you work in the medical profession.

The first trailer for the film adaptation of Cats is here, and it promises to be an acid trip dipped in a sketch, wrapped in a nightmare. Some of the planet's brightest talents are seen frolicking about in creepy, AI-furry fusion, and I, for one, can't wait to get drunk and give them my money.

No need to wait the two minutes: here are the pictures of famous people as cats.

Would you pet these human cats?

Taylor Swift as Bombalurina

Dame Judi Dench as Old Deuteronomy

Jennifer Hudson as Grizabella

James Corden as Bustopher Jones

Rebel Wilson as Jennyanydots

Sir Ian McKellen as Gus the Theater Cat

Jason Derulo as Rum Tum Tugger

Idris Elba as Macavity

Adopting a subculture solely to annoy a family member: is it pathetically petty or an ingenious form of revenge? Or maybe somewhere in between?

That's what one woman asked Reddit — and they basically gave her the green light. The woman, known as Dark_black123, posted on Reddit's "Am I the A**hole?" subreddit asking if she was, in fact, the a**hole for dressing like a goth only when she's around her mom.

The deets:

Okay so my mom was super restrictive about what I wore. As a kid and teenager. I was only allowed to wear pink baby blue and red. Worst it all had to be one color and the same 2 outfits. A polo shirt with a skirt or a sweater with a long dress. No winter jackets or pants which wasn't a big deal because I live in NC but still. I also had to wear pigtails all the time. I had to wear this outfit at all times except when in bed.

She goes on to explain that after her parents' divorce, her mom would her to "send her pictures of myself every hour or so and if I wasn't dressed up to her standard she would ground me for two weeks when I went back to her house."

Unsurprisingly, under all this pressure, OP "had a breakdown" around 16 and ended up throwing her mom's strict clothing rules out the window. This is when she found her style and her goth renaissance began.

"Around this time I got into the whole Industrial cyber goth thing," she wrote. "Ended up dying my hair black, wearing all black and getting a ton of piercings."

Since then, she's incorporated colors ilke white and purple back into her wardrobe, although black is still her preferred hue. But now, she admits, she amps up the goth side of her aesthetic a lot when she visits her mom.

"When I visit my mom now I make sure to be as goth as possible and sometimes go overboard like painting my skin white and stuff," she said. "And I know it drives her insane but I only visit her when she has other family members over. She doesn't really have the balls to say anything when other people are around."

So her question to the internet is: does this make her an a**hole?

The answer is a resounding "no." And also "LOL your mom sounds like the worst."

"That's terrible how she treated you," user Masterblast961 wrote. "Petty revenge for now isn't bad. But you should talk to her about it."

"Dude I'm proud," wrote another redditor, with another adding, "Yeah it's hardcore."

Other users gave very thoughtful answers.

"Your mother is clearly conflicted on many levels, I am sorry you had to go through this," wrote dohako. "What you now do is merely a defense mechanism to avoid her from triggering you an what must have been a fairly traumatic past."

And TealWastlander wins the award for most insightful comment:

NTA. You don’t owe it to her to change your appearance to meet her standards. Especially if you don’t live with her. You are not doing anything wrong by being yourself. She’s 100% in the wrong for trying to control you to an excessive extent when you’re either almost or are an adult woman.

Personally I feel like she should be honoured to even have you visit tbh. I would never visit a parent tried to lockdown who I am as a person, especially when they aren’t even my full-time caretaker. Put on extra dark black lipstick next time you see her for me.

So there you have it, folks. If your parent was controlling for no reason, the internet has officially decreed there's no harm in dressing like Lydia Deetz as revenge.

"You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun."

-David Spade

Life's just better when you choose to have fun. Sure there's a lot of bad things going on in the world, but sometimes you need to just relax and laugh at some silly memes.

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In case you missed it, someone spent a gajillion dollars to create a live-action "Cats" movie with an A-list cast, and the trailer just dropped.

The movie version of "Cats" stars Taylor Swift, James Corden, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba, and Dame Judi Dench. DAME JUDI DENCH. They got one of the damn dames to star in this thing. Did she lose a bet or what?

You can see more accursed images of the previously mentioned A-listers here. But suffice it to say, the cats are all kinds of creepy — and the internet kind of wishes they'd put some clothes on?

Of course, if your brain is as broken by the internet as mine, the trailer might have made you wonder...

How does the Furry community feel about "Cats"?

Furries, for the uninitiated, are people who either identify as or deeply appreciate anthropomorphized animals.

Furries hit the mainstream after a notorious episode of "Entourage" back in the 2000s saw Turtle dressing up in a ridiculous, giant animal costume to have sex with a woman who was allegedly into Furries. But Vox argues that Furries aren't necessarily trying to bone in their costumes on the reg, if at all. And a quick perusal of the Furry subreddit proves most of these people just really like cartoon animals!

So it would seem that the Furry community would be alllllll about the "Cats" trailer, as it features anthropomorphized animals that are weirdly naked. But it turns out they're not into it.

One furry posted a screenshot of Taylor Swift in character as Bombalurina in the "Cats" trailer on Reddit, which it gives me no joy to share below:

The actual footage of her acting like a sexy cat will make you want to pour bleach over your brain, but that's beside the point. And the reactions were uniformly negative.

"I thought sonic was bad..." wrote one user who identifies as an dog.

"This is a mistake," wrote Bruiser_Wild_Dog.

"Too uncanny for my taste," wrote another, "I love realistic designs... but this?"

Another user wrote a measured, thoughtful comment that takes something called "fursona technology" into account:

I think this is what would be made if animal-based "fursona technology" is real. Nature favours usefulness over superficial appeal, after all. Whether or not it would be appealing is up to us to decide.

I think we'd better leave our furry fantasies in our imagination.

"im gonna have to give that image a hard pass," wrote sylveowl, whose Reddit flair indicates that they identify as a "gay ghost owl."

It begs the question: if the live-action "Cats" is too much for a "gay ghost owl," then who is this all for?!

If you're a Game of Thrones fan, then Gwendoline Christie aka Brienne of Tarth needs no introduction. While there was disappointment surrounding the finale, and the last season in general, Christie's character was one of the few to remain near and dear to the hearts of fans throughout it all.

Fans wept when they finally witnessed Ser Brienne of Tarth get knighted after six seasons of being one of the most honorable and integrity filled characters to grace the Game of Thrones screen.

Similarly, Brienne of Tarth's final tribute to Jaime Lannister left people both misty-eyed and eager to dedicate countless memes to the moment.

Well now, months after the Game of Thrones finale, Christie has re-entered the zeitgeist of memes and adoration following the news that she was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a drama.

Naturally, people are really happy for her, but the way she got the nomination is just as inspiring as the honor itself. Since HBO foolishly didn't submit Christie, she took the initiative to submit herself. While it's not completely rare for actors to submit themselves for Emmys, it is very rare for them to secure the nomination.

People are simultaneously proud of her for knowing her wroth, annoyed at HBO for dropping the ball, and ready to bust out updatedGame of Thrones memes.

If the powers that be at HBO have read any of these tweets, then they certainly know where they went wrong.

Fans are already preparing themselves for her to win.

Even if she doesn't secure an Emmy, she has stiff competition and is in supremely good company, so it's a win-win.

Christie wasn't the only Game of Thrones cast member to submit herself in lieu of an HBO submission. Alfie Allen, who plays Theon Greyjoy, and Carice van Houten, who plays Melisandre also submitted themselves and secured nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama, and Best Guest Actress in a drama respectively.

Good on all of them, for knowing their worth and picking up the slack where HBO went wrong.

Barring mental illness or extreme circumstances, humans are always acting when we're in public - that's Sociology 101. Without the scrutiny of others, we're comfortable enough to be ourselves. Sometimes that means indulging in behavior that's, well, strange. Anyone who's picked their nose, farted with abandon, or eaten cookie dough naked over the sink understands that. The privacy of our homes - or the semi-privacy of an office or cubicle - liberates us from the social expectation that we remain 'appropriate', whatever that means.

Yesterday on Reddit, someone opened the floor by asking, 'What's the strangest thing you've ever been caught doing?' As you might imagine, the responses were many and varied. Some were so viscerally cringe-worthy that I could barely read them. Others barely registered on my embarrassment scale. Below are fifteen of the most memorable answers, as chosen by yours truly. The thread's still growing and is worth perusing for humiliating thrills. Enjoy!

1. helljack

2. brandthacker12

Running in on all fours up the stairs in underwear. Didn’t realize my best friend had already come over, and I ran into him at dick level.

3. oMettox

4. spiderlanewales

5. babbitygook14

As a pet sitter, sometimes you get lonely when the majority of your interactions are with animals. Sooo, to combat this I sometimes pretend to be the inner voice of whatever dog I'm walking, responding out loud to whatever they're sniffing or whatever grabs their attention. Each dog has his/her own weird voice as well. More than once people have walked around a corner to hear me doing this.

6. Uncanny_badluck

Oh man. So I must have been about 12. I was in the car with my mom - to set the scene it was a three row soccer mom van and I was in the second row behind the passenger seat with my mom driving. Well since I was 12 I got my random hormone boner, strange and awkward enough right? Well I decide that I would pretend I was driving and that my boner was the stick shift... mom caught me.

7. SemenDemon16

It was 3am and 15 year old me was taking a shit and got a blood nose. Now for context, I get real bad nose bleeds and usually just keep my head up and it goes away. Well I was bored. So I thought, “what if I just keep my head down and let it drip?” I know... very stupid. Blood was all over the floor. I had every intent to just clean it up with tissues and flush it, no evidence of my little experiment. What I didnt know was that my mum was actually awake and was waiting for me to finish in the toilet for her turn. I didnt lock the door because it was 3am and I didnt think I needed to. Well... she opens the door... “SemenDemon16 why are you taking so l-“ She sees the blood, starts freaking tf out. Thinks I’m either dead or dying. I start yelling trying to explain myself. Mum starts crying thinking shes gonna lose her son. My sister walks out her room from the crying and the yelling. Sees the blood. Freaks tf out as well. After a bit of panic I eventually explained my stupid experiment. I cleaned it up and we all went to bed. But I dont think anybody slept after that traumatic experience.

8. mordeci00

Had a co-worker that was working at a customer site. He had a creepy little crush on one of the women that worked there but it was apparently innocent enough that no one really cared. Until one day the woman came back from lunch and saw him pick up the cushion from her chair and sniff it. He was asked to leave.

9. rafraska

I was in standstill traffic (ie car had been turned off, people where loitering outside of their cars) and I had a baby squirrel that I was hand rearing in my car. I fed it some puppy milk formula from a bottle, looked up and realised I had an audience of about twenty people gawking at me

10. HotGarbageJuice

When I was around 10 years old I was getting curious about sex so I decided to look it up in the dictionary. Wouldn’t you know it my ultra conservative mother walks in the room so I try to play it off like I was looking up the Heida Native American tribe. She called me out for being in the S’s but I doubled down and pretended i was possibly dyslexic. What a tangled web I wove.

11. nutbanger2000

12. Threeormorepeople

Popping my friend’s back by picking him up from behind and bouncing him repeatedly. A teacher walked into the room and we all froze.

13. ZeddicusMortis

Arguing with myself (well, not myself - the actual person just wasn't there, so I was standing in) in the mirror. With animated facial expressions and gestures. Lips moving, but with no sound. I now reserve these hypothetical arguments for the shower. When I am home alone.

14. bupugifik

I once saw an old bloke slowly walk near a tree, have his hat pushed off by one of the low hanging branches, then proceed to, slowly, pick up the hat, declare "I avenge myself" in a neutral tone, and then break a twig off the tree before slowly walking off

15. fashionablypunctual

I wanted to try to drink like a dog. I put a bowl on the floor and filled it with Fanta. My dad walked into my room where I was kneeling on the floor with my tongue in the bowl. He has never mentioned it since.

It's been a scary week. The president was racist on Twitter, and then he doubled down on his racism on the White House lawn, and then he tripled down as he basked in his supporters' racist chant at a rally.

And then there was Cats.Here are some great jokes about everything from cats to Cats.

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Helping out your family in times of need can take a toll, but it's part of being a loving family member. However, just because someone is blood doesn't mean you're obligated to shirk off all boundaries in order to do them a favor. We all have our lines, and putting yourself in a position that will cause you to resent a loved one certainly isn't better than saying no.

That being said, sometimes you just have to grin and bear discomfort in order to help a loved one in need, so figuring out when to tap out or stay in the game is a toughie.

In a recent post on the subreddit Am I The Asshole a man asked the internet if he was wrong for refusing to help his pregnant sister get her house in order.

"AITA for refusing to clean my pregnant sister's disgusting house? A few details first: I am a big man. My sister is a tiny pregnant woman. Her husband is a seafarer and currently at sea. They have a boatload of money."

OP started the post by sharing that his sister is five months pregnant and his brother-in-law is a seafarer currently off on the job.

"The story: My sister has been pregnant for about 5 months. I rarely go to her house (maybe once every three years), and we usually see each other when she comes to see me (2-3 times a year). Her pregnancy is going great, it's not one of those difficult ones where the woman is bedridden or anything, she's up and about, she even does a bit of yoga, goes shopping and so on."

So far, OP's sister's pregnancy has gone relatively smoothly, but due to her height and exhaustion she recently shared it's been hard for her to keep up with the house.

"A few weeks ago she started complaining about how hard it is for her to do stuff around the house. Her husband has been away for work for about 2 months and won't be back until 2 weeks before the baby is due. She complained to our parents and then they suggested she ask me for help. She called me up and of course I said yes. I figured she needs some little repairs around the house, maybe clean some hard to reach places and stuff, and I said sure."

Naturally, being a good brother and also a good deal taller than her, OP offered to stop by and help out.

However, since their regular visits are at his place and he hasn't been to her house in years, he had no idea what he was getting himself into.

"I came to her place and as soon as I saw what her place looked like, I was shocked, appalled and disgusted. Her husband's been gone for 2 months, she's been pregnant for 5 months, but that house has not been cleaned in years. There was trash everywhere, dirty dishes, dust bunnies all over the place, spider webs and dust hanging off the ceilings and walls, and her couch smells like vomit. I couldn't believe my fucking eyes or nose what state her house is in."

When he arrived, OP was immediately appalled by the hoarder levels of filth.

He said it looks like it hasn't been cleaned in years, and it would take a whole team to get it done. When OP refused to single-handedly clean the mess, his sister freaked out on him.

"I immediately said that I'm sorry but she should hire a cleaning agency or something, because I am not dealing with that. She started crying, saying that she can't do anything, she's pregnant, bla bla, and I said that her house looks like it hasn't been cleaned since 2015, not May. She said it's not true, she keeps her house clean, am I calling her a filthy pig or something, am I insulting her and her husband, yadda yadda, so I just let her scream and left."

While OP felt fine putting his foot down, his brother-in-law, family and friends all claim he's being a jerk for not helping his pregnant sister.

"My parents have called to tell me I am the biggest disappointment ever, my father said I was an asshole, my mother said she feels sorry for any woman I might be with and that I don't deserve to have a wife (I'm gay, so joke's on them). Then my brother in law called to tell me to go fuck myself and to not expect I'll ever get to see their child. I told him he should calm down and hire a cleaning agency so that his pregnant wife doesn't have to sleep in cockroach shit, he called me a cunt and hung up."

OP doubled down on the fact that his sister has plenty of money to hire professionals, and it makes no sense for him to attempt the work on his own.

Still, some of the family thinks he should fulfill her request anyways.

"The thing is, I felt fine about this until I started talking to friends. Every single one of them thinks I should help my sister out. One of them asked if I'd do it for money and I said still no. It's disgusting, I don't care that she's my sister or that she's pregnant. I described her place to them in detail, and I told them how much money she has, and they still think I should do it."

CashieBashie thinks it's hypocritical for the family to judge OP when they're not volunteering to do the work themselves.

"NTA volunteer your friends to go clean for her. Everyone wants to act like they’d be a saint until it actually comes down to it."

9for9 thinks it's a depression-fueled mess, and suggested OP set up professional cleaners for his sisters.

"Honestly sounds like depression to me or something else. So the house has been neglected for years and now she's pregnant and it's hit her she can't bring the baby home to a mess like this. She probably can't get herself together to get it taken care of so she needs someone else to do it. Even if that means bro' takes her credit card and schedules the cleaning for her."

KABell_1950 thinks the rest of the family should check on the house before casting aspersions on OP's decision.

"NTA. Have your parents been over there to see it? Is her husband aware of how bad it is? Did you take any pictures? (Not necessary if everyone is already aware.) Ask them why they're so against her hiring a cleaning service that you can easily afford. Ask them directly to come over and help you out."

"It's better if she hires someone. It's a lot easier to have a third party do the cleaning, they have no emotional investment. And if you're there, she's going to just rag on you anyway while you're trying to clean and probably complain after you leave even if it's sparkling. And it will probably go right back to where it was as soon as you're done -- this type of mess doesn't happen overnight as you've said. I would be demoralized to watch that happen after I spent a couple of weeks there."

"Tell your friends they should go over and take a look, it's more than a week's worth of cleaning for one person. Would they like to help you out? Also, would your sis and her husband come over and clean up your mess for you? Would your parents? I think everyone just wants to push the problem off on you because it's easier for them. Please don't give in."

MoonlightsHand thinks OP is leaving out important information, given how unanimously all of the family reacted to his decision.

"OP is 100% leaving out something huge. No fucking way does every single person in OP's life react this strongly, this negatively, and this unanimously if the story OP is telling is representative of the truth. This has to be some seriously edited and/or abridged version of the truth, for certain, assuming it's not just bullshit."

AgitatedDefinition pointed out just how dangerous this environment could be for a newborn baby with a fragile immune system.

"NTA And you should put CPS/DHS on alert. This is not a suitable home for a baby. If it hasn't been cleaned in years, it's not going to be clean in four months. You could also wait, give your sister the chance to fix it. Check back in before she goes into labor and see if by some miracle the house is baby ready. And if it's not, see my first sentence."

Hopefully, OP's sister acquiesces to the suggestion to hire professional cleaners, because this sounds like a toxic environment for her, the baby, the brother-in-law, and any potential guests.

The new Lion King movie is out, giving millennials the opportunity to revel in the nostalgia of a time in which the world had hope, and animals in movies had facial expressions! With a humble 55% on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics are trampling all over the remake like a hoard of wildebeests.

It's fun to dump on the all-consuming Disney Corporation, pretending like we aren't going to always give them our money. The House of Mouse always wins, but the reviews show that there is some small schadenfreude to be had!

Here's the best of the worst.

1. "A bunch of big cats just aren't cut out to carry 'Hamlet,' as insane as it is to have to state that."

-Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service

2. "It’s the work of a studio that’s gobbled up the rest of the film industry and is still hungry for more. The Lion King feels less like a remake than a snuff film, and a boring one at that."

-David Ehrlich, IndieWire

3. "Sometimes it's fascinating, frequently it's ludicrous, and sometimes - like when an incredibly realistic animal dies on-screen in front of you while its only child mourns him - it's borderline grotesque."

-William Bibbiani, TheWrap

4. "Simply animating things that were already animated using a different animation technique is Apple-level fanbase abuse."

-Ryan Syrek, The Reader

5. "This Lion King is one of the most technically impressive disasters in film history, and that’s what’s so foreboding about it."

-Matt Dougherty, The Filtered Lens

6. "No matter how impressive the assembled voice cast is, this did not need to exist. And yet: Here it is."

-Sean Collier, Pittsburgh Magazine

7. "It is a colossal blunder, a film so artless and bland that it may confuse younger audiences."

-Alan Zillberman, Washington City Paper

8. "While not the dead-eyed stare of The Polar Express, every time a creature delivers a line it's like watching an actor with too much Botox: The lips are moving, but the face isn't telling you anything."

-Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle

9. "There's no denying this fancy new version of The Lion King is a technical marvel, but without any semblance of heart and soul, it's the cinematic equivalent of watching a flashy screensaver for two hours."

-Doug Jamieson, The Jam Report

10."Scrunch your eyes up, put your hands over your ears and you could be watching an uncharacteristically boring nature documentary on the BBC."

-Donald Clarke, Irish Times

11."When you're trying to mine emotion from a dried-up rock, you'll be left choking on your own dust long after the sheen of mechanical innovation has worn off."

-Ella Kemp, Culture Whisperer

In these horrifying times, it's sadly comforting to hear a story of racism in the U.S. that ends with karmic justice being served (and that doesn't end with the President encouraging and endorsing the hateful rhetoric). Yes, that's the silver lining we have to work with in 2019.

Earlier this week, a writer named Jaime Primak was on a plane to NYC when a racist passenger, perhaps empowered by Trump's racist rhetoric, told her to "please stop speaking Spanish." Immediately, she says the man sitting next to him came to her defense by speaking in Spanish, and then the flight attendant joined in. She says the gestures made her so happy, she wanted to "get up and dance."

There isn't much room on a plane for dancing, but there is always room for gifs! Primak followed up with this celebratory tweet:

After her tweet went viral, people started offering their support in the replies, saying they would've joined the anti-racism efforts.

Even people who don't speak Spanish are saying they would've done their best to join in.

This person pointed out that a person who hates foreign language speakers is headed to the wrong city (although they should probably just avoid all U.S. cities, and the U.S. in general, and maybe go live alone on a deserted island somewhere and only eat wonder bread).

Someone else pointed out that in Europe, it's actually considered shameful to only speak one language.

And this person shared about having a similar experience in line at Costco.

It's pretty freaking tragic that this kind of racist behavior is still happening in 2019. But at least this story is a reminder that for every racist on a plane, there's a whole bunch of people who are vehemently opposed to everything that racist stands for. It's also a reminder to stick up for your fellow humans. If you see someone being racist, take a stand. Say something. Do something. You'll help make the world a little less crappy and you might even make someone so happy they'll want to get up and dance.

This is a story about a guy named Chad who has a terrible mom, but the world's greatest grandpa. And it's a tear-jerker so if you're in public, make sure you have sunglasses on. Recently, Chad's mom kicked him out of the house for being gay. Because that's what "Jesus would've wanted" or whatever bullsh*t excuse so-called "religious" people use to justify bigotry. Heartbreaking.

Luckily, his grandpa took him in. He also sent a letter to his daughter, Chad's mom, and it's one of the best things I've ever read on the internet. And I've read all of the things.

In the letter, the grandpa exposes his daughter's hypocrisy and bad parenting by using her own exact words to disown her, the same way she disowned her son.

In the letter, he points out that the "shame in the family" is her, not her son, and that disowning one's own child is what goes "against nature."

He writes:

Dear Christine,

I'm disappointed in you as a daughter. You're correct that we have a "shame in the family," but mistaken about what it is.

Kicking Chad out of your home simply because he told you he was gay is the real "abomination" here. A parent disowning her child is what goes "against nature."

This amazing grandpa then points out to her that saying she "didn't raise her son to be gay" is true, but not in the way she thinks.

He continues:

The only intelligent thing I heard you saying in all this was that "you didn't raise your son to be gay." Of course you didn't. He was born this way and didn't choose it anymore than he [chose] being left-handed. You however, have made a choice of being hurtful, narrow-minded and backward.

He then states that he is "disowning" her.

So, while we are in the business of disowning our children, I think I'll take this moment to say goodbye to you. I now have a fabulous (as the guy put it) grandson to raise, and I don't have time for heartless b-word of a daughter.

This Grandpa DID NOT COME HERE TO PLAY.

Here's his final line:

If you find your heart, give us a call.

Someone get this guy a "World's Greatest Grandpa" mug already!!!!!!! What an absolute gold medal champion of a grandpa. Every kid deserves to have someone like this in their corner.

As devastating as it is that Chad had to deal with the trauma of being kicked out of his own home by his own mom, it seems like he ended up in the right place: under the care of someone who loves and cares for him, respects him, and defends him against bullies. Now that's what Jesus would've done.

Proposing to your fiance can be one of the most romantic moments in your life, that is, unless a naked man chasing a dog with a dildo runs by. There are countless possible interruptions that could mess up a proposal plan, but few of them are as weird as a nude guy chasing an animal with a sex toy.

In a recent post in the subreddit Today I F*cked Up, one man shared the series of unfortunate (and deeply strange) events that ruined his romantic proposal plan.

"TIFU the perfect plan"

OP started his post by laying out how he originally planned for the romantic weekend to go down.

"This is how the weekend should have gone.

1. Pick up girlfriend.

2. Drive to romantic location.

3. Pop the question.

4. Girlfriend > Fianceé.

5. Celebrate."

Then he laid out the series of bizarre events that actually occured, which included OP getting distracted on the road when he spotted a naked man chasing a dog chewing on a dildo.

"This is how the weekend actually went.

1. Picked up girlfriend.

2. Got distracted on the road when I noticed a naked homeless man chasing down a dog who had a visible dildo in its mouth."

Unfortunately, the spectacle of the naked man chasing a dog distracted OP so badly he crashed the car and lost the engagement ring during the crash.

"Got so distracted I never even noticed the truck in front of me slowing down.

Crashed. Lost the ring in the accident."

Now, instead of announcing his engagement to friends and family, OP is navigating his girlfriend's angry family in the hospital. A true inverse of a sweet proposal story.

"Swapped romantic location for hospital. Pissed off girlfriend's parents for almost Final Destinationing their daughter."

To add to everything, OP was borrowing his roommate's car, and now his roommate is supremely angry.

"Pissed off roommate for crashing his car. Pissed off myself for pissing off everyone. Ended off this weird ass weekend with nothing to show but bills and bruises."

Of course, regardless of all of this, OP still plans to propose, once he cleans up the enormous mess caused by the mysterious naked man chasing the dog.

"Any plans I had of proposing have been put on pause until I somehow manage to unfuck life. Tl;dr Planned to propose but got struck by a naked homeless man, a random doggy with a dildo, and a big ass truck."

Fredex8 wants to hear the perspective of the man who lost his dildo to a dog.

'Got distracted on the road when I noticed a naked homeless man chasing down a dog who had a visible dildo in its mouth.'

You think your life is bad? Imagine the weekend that guy must have had to end up in that situation."

Aibeit thinks this will make a better proposal story down the road.

"Yeah. Sometimes I feel like "the proposal I fucked up so bad it became memorable" is almost as good as "the most romantic proposal ever". But then I am both single as well as admittedly not entirely sane, so take with a grain of salt :)"

CamoFeather thinks the story should be shared at the wedding, after they actually get engaged.

"Lol make it part of your wedding speech. “So I want to tell everyone the story of how I asked _________ to marry me. tells story. Now, if being married to her is going to be even half as interesting as trying to propose to her, I can promise we will never have to try to keep things interesting.”

Gre_Lon thinks the crash was a cosmic warning of sorts.

"GOD DAMN...

When life throws you a homeless man and a dog dildo and causes you to crash you know its trying to tell you something..."

Cosmic warning or not, one thing is for sure: OP's engagement did not go as planned, but if they do get married, they'll have one hell of a story for the wedding.

If you've been on social media recently, you've probably seen everyone aging rapidly with FaceApp. Sure, there are some security concerns, but it's totally worth it to see yourself with wrinkles, am I right? These memes will tickle your funny bone however old you currently look.

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Today in "Donald Trump would be fired from his job if he were in literally any other job but president," a racist convenience store clerk got fired for telling shoppers to "go back to their country."

The Bucky's convenience store employee tasked with simply selling chocolate bars and water took it upon himself to interrogate the legal status of Mexican shoppers, refusing them service because racism is more important than work.

Carolina Buitron, one of the shoppers, told Chicago station WBBM that she and her cousins were riding their bikes when one of the bikes broke down. She went into the store to buy some chips as her cousins waited outside for help.

"He's like, 'oh, are those two girls adopted?' And she's like 'no, they're my cousins, they came from Mexico.' And he asked, 'are they illegal?'"

Things got even more heated as the racist clerk asked her if she's a citizen.

"Don't you know the rules?" the racist clerk asked. "They need to go back to their country."

As the family left the store, the racist threatened to call ICE.

The exchange went viral, and the mayor announced that the police are looking into it.

"Let me be abundantly clear: hate has no home here in Naperville. Quite frankly, this type of behavior has no place in society at large," Mayor Chorico wrote, appearing to subtweet the president.

CBS Chicagoreports that the racist clerk has been fired.

Will Trump get fired? Your move, Congress/America.