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Megan Fox finally opened up about being shamed for letting her son wear dresses.

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Over the past couple years Megan Fox has been mom shamed multiple times for allowing her sons Noah and Bodhi to express themselves through clothing. She first came under fire from trolls after posting photos that featured her son Noah wearing a Frozen dress.

Despite the fact that wearing a dress hurts no one, and the outfit obviously made Noah look happy (and adorable), Fox received backlash from commenters claiming it was "inappropriate."

Unsurprisingly, the backlash Fox received was fueled by homophobia, and fear-based ideas of the gender binary.

Sadly, less than a year later Fox received a similar type of backlash after posting a photo where both sons had beautiful long hair.

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People hold so much fear about freedom of expression and any semblance of gender fluidity that they'll project it onto a young child's hair length.

For the most part, Fox has ignored the backlash and continued to live her life and love her boys. But during a recent appearance on The Talk, she opened up about Noah's love of "girl" clothing and how she encourages him to be confident even when other kids laugh.

"I send him to a really liberal, like, hippy school," she shared."But even there, in California, he still has little boys going, 'Boys don't wear dresses,' or 'Boys don't wear pink.'"

Fox went on to share that Noah loves fashion and dressing himself, and even in their accepting liberal enclave he's been made fun of for wearing dresses. Rather than shame him into conforming, Fox and her husband Brian Austin Green have focused on teaching him the value of confidence.

"We're going through that now, where I'm trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says. He came home and I was like, 'How was it? Did any of the friends at school have anything to say?' And he was like, 'Well, all the boys laughed when I came in,' but he's like, 'I don't care, I love dresses too much."

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Green has also been outspoken about supporting Noah's love of fashion.

"I feel like at four at five, that's a time when he should be having fun. He's not harming anyone wearing a dress. So if he wants to wear a dress, good on him," Green told Hollywood Pipeline.

It sounds like, despite the commentary of trolls, Green and Fox are committed to raising their sons in a loving and open home, which is sadly more rare than it should be.

You can watch Fox's full interview here:


People with roommates share the moments they realized they're living with a 'psycho.'

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In ten years of living in NYC, I lived in 10 apartments with dozens of roommates including a number of psychos. There was the roommate who kept a menagerie of pet snakes and tarantulas in his room including a boa constrictor that he would occasionally let out into the apartment. There was the woman who played guitar loudly and sang in her room at all hours of day and night while intermittently weeping. And there was the couple who were on a mailing list for a neo-Nazi organization and after they moved out I kept receiving newsletters with articles about "the Jew problem" (I'm Jewish). Honestly not sure which one was worse. You'd think I would've learned to vet my roommates better, but cheap rent is cheap rent! And most of the time, you don't realize your roommate is a psycho until it's too late.

These 19 people share their stories of the moments they realized they were co-habitating with an actual "psycho":

1.) From kexcellent:

Her Craigslist ad for a roommate said "I'm quiet and mostly spend time in my room gaming and hanging out with my cats". I'm pretty introverted, and rent was cheap, so it sounded perfect.

I moved in and she proved herself to be the polar opposite of her Craigslist ad - loud, extroverted, in my room and in my business 24/7, and a raging alcoholic. She'd regularly have random people over getting blackout drunk until 4am when I'd have to be up for work at 8 or earlier. She left nasty food messes everywhere that led to a cockroach problem (which she didn't believe when I showed her) and got mad when I didn't want to help clean up after her. She didn't have a job, lived off of an inheritance and spent it all on alcohol. I later learned she had a shoplifting problem as well when she kept getting court summons in the mail that she wore like a badge of honor.

The last straw was when she invited the guy she was seeing over and they proceeded to get fucked up on benzos and a half gallon of rum, threatened each other with steak knives in the kitchen at 5am and pounded on my door screaming at me to call the cops on one another. I told them it wasn't my problem and promptly moved my shit out while she was out of the house the following day (I thankfully had a place lined up already). Fuck. That.

2.) From Zavarakatranemi:

I would start doing laundry and he would sneak in right after I had started the washing machine, while it was still calibrating, to pause it, and sniff/taste my underwear. I caught him one day, he claimed he was just "checking something".

3.) From RingStrider:

Living in a college student-only apartment building, I requested move to a new room because of party animal roommates. Rooms are all five bedroom suites with shared bathrooms, kitchen, and living room. As it's summer, three of the bedrooms in the new room are rented but empty by students not there for the summer, and only one roommate is actually present.

Meet the new roommate, seems normal, chill, talk about video games and music a lot. Honestly seemed like he could be a great friend at first.

One day a few weeks later, I start hearing random screaming and crashing coming from his room. At one point he knocks on my door, asking for a broom, as he's broken a few things. I give him a dustpan and broom and ask if he's okay, he mumbles something to himself as he walks back to his room and slams the door.

A few hours later, more screaming, more crashing, and again he knocks on the door, this time asking for some tape. I give him some and again ask if he's okay, and he replies he might need to go to the mental hospital but I don't need to do anything.

I go to bed with some earplugs in (a habit I'd formed because of previous party animal roommates) , and the next morning our shared kitchen and living room is TRASHED. Broken furniture, drawers and cabinets torn off the wall, a knife sticking out of the wall, TV cratered in as if it was punched, the whole nine.

Luckily for me I'm leaving for a family event that weekend, so I decide to head out early and leave right that second (after taking pictures of the damage.)

On my way out of the building, I stop at the building manager's office to tell her everything. She already knew something was up, as apparently a window from his room was smashed and objects were thrown onto the sidewalk below.

She asks me to write up an email detailing what I'd seen and provide her the pictures I took. I do so and bail.

A few hours later, I get a text from a friend who works near my building saying "LOL bro there's a ton of cops surrounding your building, did you kill someone or something?"

I emailed the building manager to ask what happened, but she tells me the police were inside our suite, but she can't detail what happened with him due to privacy concerns.

A few days later, going back to the building, I pop in her office to ask the building manager for details or warnings before I go up. She's not there, but her assistant is. I ask the assistant, whose only reply to my concerns is "You know, the eviction process takes a really long time."

I go up to the room, shitting myself, expecting the worst, but luckily he's not around at the moment. I didn't see him again for a couple days, and once I did, he acted completely casually and as if nothing had happened. Casually asking about video games and random shit standing in an apartment with completely torn apart cabinets and furniture.

A week or so later, he's gone without a trace. Apparently his family forced him to move back home and defer going to college so he could get better.

Apparently when I'd left for that weekend, why the police showed up, the building manager contacted the roommates father, but when the father showed up, the roommate threatened and/or attempted suicide and possibly threatened to kill someone (people who were nearby/present differ in stories) so the police had to show up and break into the room. He seemed to have a history of mental illness and had a few events in his life that caused this breakdown.

Good news, a year and a half later I see on social media he ended up finishing college, has a full time job, and seems to be functioning very well.

4.) From cortechthrowaway:

I was cooking dinner one night, and I just couldn't find the kitchen knives. Like, the whole block was missing from its usual spot on the countertop.

Figured my roommate had moved them for some reason, but it took me forever to find them--tucked far back in the cabinet above the refrigerator.

When my roommate got home, I asked her about it. She told me, "Oh, I had this horrible thought that I might stab you to death in your sleep, so I hid them up there."

I was young (this was my first place out of school), and I did not know how to react. I was split three ways:

  1. Shock, because she really was not a violent person. No angry outbursts, no threats, certainly no violence in her past.

  2. Bewilderment, because that's not how hiding works. It's not hidden from you if you know where it is!

  3. Trepidation, because, was that a threat?

5.) From headybra:

Shitting in the shower and talking about it like it's a normal thing.

6.) From z9pET5oB8A:

where do I start with this guy, he was unstable in multiple ways.

one time I saw some scratches on the hallway wall. for a couple days I kept thinking, what could we have carried down the hallway that made those scratches? One night when everybody else was out, I heard a weird metal scraping noise. I peeked out of my room and saw him walking up and down that hallway, holding a big kitchen knife, dragging the point along the wall and talking to himself. I couldn't hear what he was saying.

7.) From crazyladyscientist:

When I finally put together that the reason she was divorced by 25, had dozens of "terrible" relationships, a boss who "treated her like garbage", had all past roommates who were "awful people" and no close friends because people "didn't know how to be good friends and always ended up taking advantage of her" wasn't because she just had terrible luck. It turns out she was just a terrible person

8.) From DepressedHermit1:

Oof, how do I even explain this? I used to live with a "friend" who did everything she could to destroy my romantic life. I did not realize this until Boy #3. I wasn't really attached to Boy #1 or #2, so when those flings died out, I didn't think deeply about it; however, I was crazy about Boy #3 and finally started to look into what was going on.

The first thing I noticed were the rumors. She started telling me things like, "Boy #3 told me that you make him uncomfortable and he really doesn't like you. I don't think you should hang out with him again, you're just going to embarrass yourself. I'm trying to look after you." She would repeat variations of this over and over and over again, always trying to make herself look like a good friend. During this time, I also heard from one of her gossipy friends that she had been telling people that I was really ugly, caked my face in makeup, faked my personality, and was a bitch. None of these things were true. I tried to confront her about it and she said that her friend had made it up. I wasn't friends with this person, so I gave my roommate the benefit of the doubt at first.

Then she started ostracizing me from events. Boy #3 was best friends with her boyfriend, so often times her boyfriend would invite me to things because he was trying to get us to hook up. Whenever she found out about this, she would purposely give me the wrong date for the event or lie to me that it was a date between her and her boyfriend. At one point, she was supposed to drive with me to a party, but instead she locked me out of the car and drove away because she didn't want me there.

At first when I confronted her, she told me "You deserved it," and then gave me the silent treatment for days. As time went on, she started screaming at me, telling me that I "don't deserve love," that she's "the beautiful one" and that she's the one that deserves male attention, not me. Multiple times she told me that "ugly people don't deserve love" and that she's the only person in the world who is beautiful, so she's the only one who should be loved. After we stopped living together, she sent me a really long FB message telling me that I'm worthless, my life has no value, it insults her that I don't understand that I am inferior to her, and that I'm lucky she was ever friends with me because she's an incredibly kind and beautiful woman and I should be grateful that she ever spoke to me. I cut contact with her.

The moment I realized she was a psychopath was three years later, when she contacted me out of the blue. The whole reason she contacted me was to yell at me about Boy #3 (who I had no contact with). Once again, she told me that I was "not allowed" to speak to him and that I was ugly and didn't deserve love. She then threatened me and told me to leave the country because she doesn't want me near him. She also yelled at me about how I had "no right" to end our friendship and told me that she'd been cyberstalking me the whole time and keeping an eye on where I was working and what I was up to because "we're still friends." She continued to stalk me online for another year. I don't know if she's still doing so. She did a lot of other shitty things, like emotionally abusing and cheating on her boyfriend, trying to get me to stop being friends with other girls because I was "her" friend, using people for their money, stealing and destroying my stuff, etc. She's a vile person.

9.) From Makeshift-Masquerade:

This one roommate I had never washed her clothes. She just wore a new outfit every single day. I assumed she was rich and decided not to engage with her since she never said hi to me when we saw each other.

At the end of the semester, I smelled something so awful that I can’t really describe with the words available to me in the english language. I guess I’ll say this to give you an idea. If it were a scent for a candle, I would call it something like: “Hormones and Bad Decisions”

I took a look outside my door, and I saw she left a luggage trolley meant for helping people carry large amounts of stuff, that was FULL of dirty clothes. I gagged when I saw some old panties were at the top of the large pile.

We had laundry machines. She had money. They sold detergent and drier sheets downstairs. I have no idea why she did this, but I assumed she was probably the one who was behind the mystery of how “nobody flushed the toilet” even though we all swore we did.

10.) From bonemonkey12:

I was a bartender where she was waitressing and she needed a place to stay. I had nothing fancy, a 2 bed lower, that cost me $400 a month at the time (early 2000s). Her half of the rent was 200. And there was off street parking.

She was crushing up oxycontin and snorting it because apparently pill form wasn't good enough.

Her mood swings between her and her boyfriend were ridiculous. Throwing my stuff at each other, breaking crap. I found she had stolen a few hundred dollars from me.

At the time I had about $50k worth of music equipment and instruments at the house. I had enough and threw her out.

I ended up getting a call from her mother about a month later. She was calling to thank me. Apparently the previous roommate had checked herself into rehab after I kicked her out and she was 30 days sober. She had found Jesus and was trying to get into something called the WorkCorp.

She also apparently ditched the boyfriend, who I learned was on again and off again for years and the source of get habit.

She actually personally stopped by a year later and thanked me for kicking her out because she got her life on track.

Hopefully she stayed sober. I hate to admit, I was being selfish because I didn't want my music stuff to disappear.

11.) From MyPupWrigley:

Her mom, the master electrician (JK she was an HR rep), told her that every piece of electronics that was plugged in cost at least a dollar a day.

So every fucking day when I went to class I came home to all my shit unplugged. I tried reasoning with her. With just the standard house appliances we'd be sitting on a 300 dollar electric bill. But no. Months and months this went on.

I worked off campus and stayed for spring break while she went home. At that point I had basically moved in with my girlfriend anyways so I unplugged everything. Every appliance in the house that needed electricity got unplugged. Fridge was left with the door cracked open.

The next week she threw an absolute shit fit at me. I just said, "Hey, I wasn't gonna be here so I was just trying to save us money". She wasn't a fan of that.

12.) From InternetKidsAreMean:

I don't know if this counts as "psycho" as much as it does "creepy as fuck" --

I had a roommate, who at the age of 27+, would make it a point to only go after girls in High School. I would come home from work with some beer and weed ready to enjoy my weekend, only to find a 16-17 year old girl in my house.

Naturally, he tried to argue the "age of consent" bullshit, but he and I both knew the real truth:

Grown women over the age of 20 could see his one-dimensional "alpha male, high school jock" bullshit from a mile away; naive high school girls were his only option.

Sure, they were "consenting" and all, it's not like he was violently raping them or giving them the ol' Cosby, but still... so fucking grimy.

I always secretly fantasized about a day where one of their father's would show up to my house looking for his daughter.

13.) From Konfliction:

Unplugged the wifi because she was scarred the wifi signal would fuck with her dreams and cause her to toss and turn all night.

14.) From SalemScout:

She took all the pots and pans into her room. Not just her own, but literally all of them. We never got an explanation as to why. They eventually got put back, but for a little while they were just piled on her bed.

She accused us of spitting in her bottle of soy sauce. None of us would have done that, so we were all like "no...?" She had no reason to believe we would have. She threw it out.

She would leave the apartment and then the building at odd hours. I'm an insomniac and I asked her about it once like "hey, was that you at 3AM leaving?" because I wasn't sure. She flipped her shit on me and accused me of stalking her.

Her boyfriend came to stay with her for a week. I was in graduate school and made time to hang out a little, go out to dinner with them one night, the standard stuff. After he left, she accused me of not spending enough time with him. She expected me to be around the whole time.

Over all she was a nice girl, but towards the end she kind of went off the deep end. We were both in really tough programs, so I chocked it up to stress. But she never got back to normal. She now lives in Germany (married to the boyfriend) and is happy doing...I don't even know what.

15.) From DepressedHermit1:

Oof, how do I even explain this? I used to live with a "friend" who did everything she could to destroy my romantic life. I did not realize this until Boy #3. I wasn't really attached to Boy #1 or #2, so when those flings died out, I didn't think deeply about it; however, I was crazy about Boy #3 and finally started to look into what was going on.

The first thing I noticed were the rumors. She started telling me things like, "Boy #3 told me that you make him uncomfortable and he really doesn't like you. I don't think you should hang out with him again, you're just going to embarrass yourself. I'm trying to look after you." She would repeat variations of this over and over and over again, always trying to make herself look like a good friend. During this time, I also heard from one of her gossipy friends that she had been telling people that I was really ugly, caked my face in makeup, faked my personality, and was a bitch. None of these things were true. I tried to confront her about it and she said that her friend had made it up. I wasn't friends with this person, so I gave my roommate the benefit of the doubt at first.

Then she started ostracizing me from events. Boy #3 was best friends with her boyfriend, so often times her boyfriend would invite me to things because he was trying to get us to hook up. Whenever she found out about this, she would purposely give me the wrong date for the event or lie to me that it was a date between her and her boyfriend. At one point, she was supposed to drive with me to a party, but instead she locked me out of the car and drove away because she didn't want me there.

At first when I confronted her, she told me "You deserved it," and then gave me the silent treatment for days. As time went on, she started screaming at me, telling me that I "don't deserve love," that she's "the beautiful one" and that she's the one that deserves male attention, not me. Multiple times she told me that "ugly people don't deserve love" and that she's the only person in the world who is beautiful, so she's the only one who should be loved. After we stopped living together, she sent me a really long FB message telling me that I'm worthless, my life has no value, it insults her that I don't understand that I am inferior to her, and that I'm lucky she was ever friends with me because she's an incredibly kind and beautiful woman and I should be grateful that she ever spoke to me. I cut contact with her.

The moment I realized she was a psychopath was three years later, when she contacted me out of the blue. The whole reason she contacted me was to yell at me about Boy #3 (who I had no contact with). Once again, she told me that I was "not allowed" to speak to him and that I was ugly and didn't deserve love. She then threatened me and told me to leave the country because she doesn't want me near him. She also yelled at me about how I had "no right" to end our friendship and told me that she'd been cyberstalking me the whole time and keeping an eye on where I was working and what I was up to because "we're still friends." She continued to stalk me online for another year. I don't know if she's still doing so. She did a lot of other shitty things, like emotionally abusing and cheating on her boyfriend, trying to get me to stop being friends with other girls because I was "her" friend, using people for their money, stealing and destroying my stuff, etc. She's a vile person.

16.) From Ironstream:

My wife had a roommate in college who kept a roll of paper towels in the bathroom. One day my wife used the paper towels to clean up the bathroom, which is what she thought the towels were meant for. The roommate confronted her and asked her to buy more paper towels. Apparently the roommate was using paper towels to dry herself, instead of you know, a towel.

Same woman would use pots and pans and not clean them up, but she wasn’t very tall so my wife started putting them on the top shelves where the roommate couldn’t reach them. Problem solved!

Same woman had a first date, at age 21, and my wife got her made up and did a pep talk with her and when the guy came to pick the roommate up... she just stayed on the couch. She ignored her ringing phone for about 45 minutes then my wife went down and told the dude it wasn’t happening that night. The roommate stayed sitting on the couch acting like nothing was wrong.

Same woman came into the store where my wife was working, a few years after they had a new lease come up and they just... moved to new apartments without speaking to each other. The roommate is there with her mom, my wife sort of leaves an opening to say hello and the roommate made absolutely no attempts at conversation, bought some stuff, and left. Apparently my wife and the roommate had shopped together at the same store years before that.

Needless to say this woman was weird. I’ve never met her.

17.) From somemetausername:

Whenever his alarm would go off he would thrash around like he was having a seizure as he woke up. He slept on a top bunk and it took him a few weeks to keep from hitting his head on the ceiling first thing. He would then jump out of bed and walk over to one of the windows and yank really hard on the mini blind string, until the blinds on that window fell down. (After the first set of blinds fell I replaced it with a blackout shade, but instead of pulling that up he would yank really hard on the remaining window’s set of mini blinds until those fell down) he would listen to screamo all the time. He had a set of sharpened wolverine claws even though we weren’t supposed to have weapons in the dorm. He worked out all the time and once another guy on our hall pissed him off (for doing almost nothing) so he body slammed him.

18.) From ZachLaunch:

Ate two slices of bread while going ”super saiyan”. Making direct eye contact. Taking a bite in between power-ups. I should add that he was completely naked. I woke up the next morning and he and everything he owned was just gone.

19.) From vvvulture:

She called the police because she was convinced someone wiped poop on her towel and wanted them to do a DNA test so she could find the culprit. She was very mad when they told her they don’t provide those services and so then she called our utilities provider and had water and electricity turned off. She left for two nights, came back, during which I had transferred the utilities in my name and got it turned on. She then screamed at me that she didn’t want to pay for the two days she was cooling off somewhere else bc of the poop towel, and that she was going to take me to small claims court. I said all right sounds good. Then she threw a flip flop at me. I almost started laughing really hard but called her dad instead. He picked her up and she was gone for the rest of the lease until move out Day she came for her things. Was so happy she left though, her dad still kept paying her rent.

Thank you poop towel.

Dad doesn't know what a menstrual cup is and lets his son take one to show and tell.

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Menstrual cups are one of the most inventive and eco-friendly period products to hit the market, and they are also the most likely to confound unknowing men. For those unfamiliar, menstrual cups are small silicone cups you insert during your period to catch blood. As vampy as it sounds, it's fairly easy to do and not a total Dracula nightmare. Plus, it saves you money on tampons and gives the environment a break!

However handy they are, menstrual cups are still a relatively new concept to a lot of people, and if you see one lying around it's easy to think it's something else entirely.

In a recent post on the Today I F*cked Up subreddit, a dad shared how his son became obsessed with his mom's menstrual cup.

The situation quickly got even funnier, because the dad also didn't know what the cup was.

"TIFU by letting my son take my wife’s menstrual cup for show and tell"

OP kicked off the post by sharing that his wife left town for a couple of weeks, and during that time their son discovered her menstrual cup.

The translucent tulip-shaped cup quickly became the son's favorite toy, and he brought it everywhere with him. Since OP also had no idea what it was, it seemed like fair game.

"My wife is working out of town for a couple weeks. Sometime over the weekend I noticed my son playing with this little silicone cup that kinda looked like a tulip. I asked him what it went to and what it did and he proceeded to show me it’s versatility- over the next few days it helped the Paw Patrol save the town, it was a treasure chest holding tiny pebbles guarded by pirates, a force field protecting a space ship. It came with us to the park, grocery shopping, and even out to dinner one night. I loved that it had its own little satchel and assumed it just went to a play set."

The situation reached peak absurdity when OP's son decided to bring the menstrual cup to show and tell.

"Fast forward to this morning and as we’re getting ready for school Alexa reminds us that it’s show and tell today at school. So my son grabs his little silicone cup and off to school he goes. I pick him up after school and his teacher asks to speak with me. My son looks happy so I figure he’s not in trouble, or if he is in trouble he did something cheeky that he’s proud of."

When OP came to pick his son up from class, the teacher pulled him aside to have an awkward conversation about the show and tell.

Teacher: Ben’s show and tell was...interesting.

Me: Yea! It’s cool right? We’ve been playing with that thing for days.

Teacher: Uh, Mr. Scott, do you know what that is?

I start to panic- oh shit it’s not a toy..."

"Teacher...that is a, uh, menstrual cup.

I get confused.

Teacher notes my confusion: it’s um, used to collect menstrual blood...

I’m still confused...

Teacher: it uh, goes inside, and uh...collects blood"

The teacher had to break down exactly what a menstrual cup was, and how inserting it works, a conversation that would be awkward enough with a partner - let alone your child's school teacher.

"Me: It just...stays in there?

She nods.

Me: are you sure? I don’t think that would, uh, fit....too, uh...comfortably...there.

Teacher: oh it folds in half then springs open inside...."

The conversation ended with OP asking where he could find a new menstrual cup for his wife, since he suspected she wouldn't want to use one her son had been playing with.

"We’re both clearly uncomfortable.

Me: alright then.....so where do I get a replacement because my wife will probably not be too pleased when she returns home and will not want to continue using this one."

When he broke the news to his wife, she thought the whole situation was hilarious, and they decided to let their son continue to play with the cup.

He can laugh about this when he's older.

"My wife laughed hysterically when we told her. My son is non the wiser and is having a tea party with the cup right now.

TL:DR thought my wife’s menstrual cup was a toy and my son and I played with it all weekend then he took it for show and tell."

"Edit: WOW!!!! I cannot believe this got so much attention. I’m glad everyone got a good laugh. A bit uncomfortable hearing some coworkers discussing this and then pretending to read it for the first time so they wouldn’t know it was me, though."

After his post became wildly popular, OP followed up with an edit to clarify that he does understand how periods work, he just wasn't acquainted with menstrual cups.

"My wife has been reading the comments and insisted that I clarify that I know all about her cycle. We are TTC currently and, just as it was with our son, I know when she’s ovulating, I track her cycle with her and (with our son at least) sometimes help give her the hormone shots. I grew up with 4 sisters and the only devices I was aware of for periods were to absorb the blood- not collect it. I was also confused by it “fitting” because, like I said, this device helped save a Chickoletta over the weekend. I’ve seen a tampon- they’re much slimmer than this cup is. My wife assures me it fits just fine and she doesn’t even feel it’s presence after it’s im position."

"I’d like to try to upload a picture of the cup in the back of a tractor with a chicken riding in it but am waiting on my wife’s approval."

The story reminded CraptasticFanDango of an inventive child from their son's class.

"Reminded me of a boy in my son's first grade class... The little entrepreneur was selling telescopes for a nickel each, and sold out. Sadly, they were his mother's used tampon applicators."

Sharkitty's favorite part of the story was OP's deeply awkward exchange with the teacher.

"I love that you (sort of) argued with the teacher about its form and function and she explained the folding and springing motion. This is a priceless interaction and a legitimately high quality TIFU. Thank you for sharing."

On a similar note, lobstahfingah remembers playing with their dad's condoms.

"This is awesome!

When we were little, my brother and found my dad's condoms and we spent an afternoon on the front lawn playing with them. "Worst water balloons ever. And why are they individually wrapped?"

The moral of the story here is menstrual cups are multi-use and should be honored as such.

18 signs from the Global Climate Strike to give you hope for the future.

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Today, hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in the Global Climate Strike to demand our leaders address climate change and stop destroying natural resources for profit. There are over 4,500 strikes slated worldwide spanning over 120 countries, and over 500 strikes are registered in the U.S. alone.

Today's strike marks the beginning of a week full of climate actions, including a Youth Climate Summit on Saturday, a U.N. Climate Action Summit on Monday, and a second worldwide walkout called Earth Strike planned for Sept. 27.

While activists across the world have been organizing rallies and linking up to signal boost the need to keep corporations and governments accountable for the corruption that threatens mass extinction, the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is currently the face of this week of action.

Thunberg helped give the global movement a massive push a visibility back in August 2018, when she started skipping school on Fridays to protest outside Swedish parliament, demanding they address climate change. Her efforts have inspired #FridaysForFuture across the world, where other students take off school early (or arrive after school) to protest outside their local government buildings.

Over a million kids skipped school to participate in the global climate strike back in March, and today's strike (alongside the week full of actions) is expecting similar numbers, many of them also children.

As expected, the signs are out in throngs, and people are using them to fuel their rage, sadness, and hope in equal parts. I went down to the New York City march to meet the kids, and feel hopeful for the future, for once.

In honor of the kids fighting tirelessly for their future, I gathered 18 signs from today's protest that sum up the current moment in climate activism.

1. "Save our Mother to save our kids"

2. "The wrong ICE is melting!"

3. "[McDonalds, Cargill Inc., Burger King] Don't be chicken, stop burning the Amazon for soy to feed me"

4. "We can have [Mitch McConnell] or [Planet Earth] but not both"

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5. "Planet Over Profit" & "Put Your Best Footprint Forward"

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6. "The Youth Strike Back"​​​​​​

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7. "Global politicians weak AF! Stand down, the youth are taking over!"

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8. "Glad I took swimming lessons!"

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9. "I literally can't chill"

10. "There is no Planet B!"

11. "I can't believe I'm protesting for facts."

12. "If you don't believe in climate change, your mom's a hoe!"

13. "Don't play with my future"

14. "The ice cream is melting, so are we"

15. "You are never too small to make a difference"

16. "Exxon knew in 1977!"

17. "Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

18. "Limitless consumption, consequences externalized, asylum denied, for profit prisons, water privatization, neo-colonialism: who gains from climate catastrophe?"

26 Memes From The Area 51 Raid. It Actually Happened.

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The Area 51 Raid that started off as a joke actually happened, y'all. People really did show up to "see them aliens." As you can imagine, the internet responses are truly out of this world. Get ready to laugh yourself into another dimension with these hilarious Area 51 Raid memes. Sometimes the internet is a beautiful thing.

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Pregnant woman asks if she was wrong to kick out husband for hiding $1500 from her.

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Marriage is hard, or so I've been told. And one thing that seems to make it much harder is money—specifically, a lack of it. Financial struggles can put a huge strain on a relationship, as a story recently shared on Reddit highlights.

A woman who is six months pregnant reveals that she kicked out her husband after discovering he was hiding $1500 from her during a time when she struggled to support them both.

She explains that he hid the money (an insurance payout) for two weeks, during which time she bought groceries, paid for takeout and his car insurance and struggled to pay for her own gas.

My husband hid $1500 (some insurance payout) from me and he played the whole “I don’t have money for gas” victim part. This money is not part of our savings or anything. Anyway, he had been hiding the money for 2 weeks. During those two weeks I bought groceries for us, I paid for our take out food, I offered to pay for his broken windshield, and overall I was concerned about whether or not he had enough money for himself. He saw me struggle putting to put gas in my truck. He let me pay for his car insurance. He heard my concerns and my offers to help him and he did not once tell me not to worry.

This week, she says her husband "started to act strange" after she asked if she could use his debit card because she needed to borrow $20. She asked if he was "hiding money" from her and he "denied it" and said she was "paranoid and crazy."


Yesterday I asked him to lend me $20 because a friend invited me somewhere last minute and I didn’t have cash. He got really nervous when I asked him if I could borrow his debit card. He started to act strange. I asked him if he was hiding something from me and he called me crazy and accused me of not believing him. I asked him if he was hiding money from me? And he denied it and said I was paranoid and crazy.

The woman says when her husband checked his bank account in front of her, he pretended to be "surprised." After a "whole day" he finally confessed that he was hiding the money from her, because he was afraid she would "ask for some money" if she knew the truth.

He checked his bank account in front of me and acted surprised. He literally shouted, “wow wow wow I have extra money!!!! Oh my god this is so awesome!!” And he played the whole I didn’t know part.

He continued to argue and I told him that I don’t care about the money I care about honesty. Why did he lie? and if he can lie so blatantly about this then he can lie (or has lied) about many things.

It took a whole day for him to finally confess that he was hiding the money from me because supposedly I was going to ask for some money if I knew. He said he felt guilty for not telling about it when he saw me struggle with money.

She says she kicked him out of the house for being "cruel and deceitful" and because she doesn't want to be with someone who can "lie so blatantly."

Today I asked him to leave the house. I called him cruel and deceitful. I told him that I don’t want to be with someone that can lie so blatantly.

By the way I’m 6 months pregnant with a very wanted and planned baby. We’ve know each other for 3 years.

Am I the as*hole for leaving him over this? I’m just so hurt by how easily he lied and called me crazy and paranoid. And now I’m questioning everything in our relationship. Maybe his gym sessions are time that he spends with women. I don’t know anything anymore.

She posted her story in Reddit's "Am I The A**hole?" forum to ask commenters to weigh in on whether or not she did the right thing. Unsurprisingly, commenters are on her side.

wheredidalfgo writes that she's NTA (Not The A**hole) and that her husband's behavior suggests he's untrustworthy and deceitful:

NTA. For someone to watch you struggle, ‘feel bad’ but continue with the lie, says a lot about your husband. He is deceitful. He is going to do this again. Probably with money, and who knows what else. I hope you have a strong support system!

theres_a_con agrees that he's the a**hole and kicking him out is only the "first step":

NTA, Jesus he got this money and still went for you for gas money. And you’re pregnant?!?! That’s a significant breach of trust. I can’t even wrap my head around it. Kicking him out of the house is the first step.

ZeusMN85 agreed she's NTA but offered a solution:

NTA

You two need couple's counseling ASAP.

Seems like it might be too late for that, but who knows! Hopefully if they do get counseling, she shows up with the Reddit screenshots to prove that she won this fight. Because that's what couples counseling is all about, right? Winning?

22 snarky signs from the climate strikes all over the world.

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People around the globe took to the streets on September 20th to advocate for climate justice, and while the crisis isn't funny, many of the signs are.

The inspiring movement lead by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg has people mobilized and getting creative. These clever posters come from London, Sydney, Glasgow, New York, Melbourne, and other cities on this rapidly deteriorating planet.

Laugh, and cry, and take action.

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People who work the graveyard shift share the weird things that have happened on the job.

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They call it the "graveyard shift" for a reason. I've always thought working the overnight shift, especially at a gas station or convenience store, must be one of the most hardcore jobs out there—right up there with working in the police force or military. And a recent Reddit thread confirms these assumptions. Someone recently asked: "night shift gas station clerks of reddit, what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever encountered?" The responses are as bizarre and terrifying as you'd imagine for someone whose job is to deal with customers who are awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. These people deserve medals of honor.

1.) From notslackingatworkno:

I was working at a Mobil late one night in my hometown, which is a summer vacation hotspot, when a middle aged man who looked like he just walked off a golf course. He was obviously a little drunk but drunk middle aged men who golf was the norm for tourists so I took no heed.

He came up to the counter and I heard him ask me if there were any gay bars in town. I told him no, that the closest one I was aware of was in Provincetown, a gay hotspot which was an optimistic hour drive away with traffic.

He then asked me if I was interested in "fooling around" with him. I replied no, and in an attempt to soften the rejection I joked "I don't think my girlfriend would be too happy about that", which seemed to excite the guy as he redoubled his efforts.

His big pitch was that he had an especially nice van that we could pull into the garage bay to use. Granted, it looked like a nice van, but didn't sway my stance. After another 5 minutes he seemed to resign to his fate and he left the store. I thought we were done and went back to reading.

Half an hour later I hear a car start up and leave the lot. I didn't realize he had just stayed in his van and was waiting for me. I figured, creepy, but whatever he's gone, so I put it out of my mind.

A couple hours after that I was closing up shop, and I had to go out on a ladder to change the prices on the sign for the next day. The town is deserted at this point and all the lights at the station were off save a couple in the garage. While I'm up on the ladder the same van screeches back into the lot. I'm up on a ladder in the dark alone, not thrilled about this development.

He hopped out and hollered "I FORGOT TO PAY YOU". I figured that I had given him smokes or something and just forgot to charge him as I was rejecting his advances, so I asked him "FOR WHAT". He replied, "I FORGOT TO TRY AND PAY YOU FOR A GOOD TIME"

I paused. He yelled "$250". It occurred to me that I could probably just take the dude's money and run, but I correctly assessed that would be really stupid, so I yelled "FUCK MAN, NO MEANS NO", still on the ladder.

He yelled "JESUS CHRIST, FINE", and peeled out. Never saw him again, thankfully.

2.) From SuetyFiddle:

Not a gas station, but a train station cafe. There were overnight works going on so we stayed open until 1 or 2am for the builders. One night this older gentleman comes in, well dressed. Asks for a coffee but can't pay when I make it. I give it to him anyway since I'll just throw it otherwise, and he asks me for some cake. I refuse, and he goes "I sing for my supper!" And then starts to belt out Frank Sinatra right there in the shop. And he just. Won't. Stop. He's there for like, half an hour.
I tried to get security to look after him because he clearly wasn't all there. Found him later, singing for the builders who were giving him sandwiches. Eventually called the local police who got him supervised until he could catch a train home in the morning

3.) From littleredhoodlum:

I worked in a rural gas station/ garage when I was in high school. One evening I was working and there were some pretty bad storms brewing. It didn't take long for there to be a fairly large group of people stopped at the station to find some shelter.

I didn't think much of it, wasn't the first time it had happened, but then they started blowing the tornado sirens. All the sudden there's a bunch of adult and families looking at little 16 year old me looking for answers.

There's no basement so I did the first thing I could think of and shoved them all in the walk in cooler. Shut us all in and rode out the storm. When it passed I went out and there was a big plate glass window busted and some shit blown around the store.

All the people came out of the cooler and were pretty much like, "See you later," and left.

I was pretty much left there by myself like what the fuck just happened.

4.) From RedditTrollin:

Years ago I worked overnights at a gas station, in a pretty bad neighborhood in Florida. My first night working there an older guy came in, walked up to the counter and reached across and punched me in the jaw pretty hard. The guy I was working with chased him out the door while I called the cops to send someone over. My coworker came back in pretty quick looking frightened and said to send an ambulance because the crazy guy just died outside. EMT and police came, guy was alive but had a pretty bad heart attack. Every other shift was pretty timid compared to that.

5.) From Cliff_Doctor:

I had a friend who worked at a gas station. He said someone came in one night and produced a gun and told my friend to empty the register. Being completely dumbfounded by the situation my friend told him that he had to buy something first. This is because to open the register an item from the gas station needed to be scanned at the register. According to my friend they stared at each other completely silent and bewildered for a few seconds. After that my friend had regained enough of his faculties to explain this to the robber. Then the robber scanned a Twix took all the money in the register and left.

6.) From carmium:

Bought some gas one night (before pay at the pump), and when I came inside, saw the clerk was my friend Dan from high school - maybe a couple of years ago, then. We have a grand old reunion through the pay slot under the glass before he buzzes me inside. I comment on how bulletproof the place looks and he says it's supposed to be. I was on my way home from a girls night out and had nothing to do, so sat on a stool and we traded what we knew people were up to, blah blah blah. Suddenly this guy in a black hoodie just materializes at the pay slot and I clearly hear the words "...all the money, I have a gun." Inch-thick glass or not, I'm ready to freak, but I hear Dan's calm voice:
"I'm sorry, sir, but company policy is that I have to see the gun, or I could lose my job." The guy holds his finger up like 'just a sec' and fishes out this big, black handgun from his cargo pants. He presents it in two hands like he's looking to pawn it. I can see a big screw at the bottom of the grip (?) which looks funny, but what do I know? Dan again: "Ah, I'm sorry, that's just a pellet gun, sir, and that doesn't qualify." The would-be robber packs up and leaves, muttering a sumbitch as he goes.
Dan calls the cops, and sees I'm shaking; he gives me a hug and points out the pay slots are scooped into the counter so that a hand around a gun can't possibly fit under the glass; the owner had shown him with a plastic gun. I still thought that was pretty cool of my school buddy.

7.) From Richard-Hindquarters:

Meth heads that just need "to be let in for a second" because their car broke down/injured/sick granny/anything to try to trick you into letting them in so they can stab and, rob you, buttfuck your corpse.

8.) From Hexpul:

Idk if this was necessarily weird but more luck. During and after high school I worked a this crappy gas station that closed up at 11pm. I started doing my cleaning duties when I noticed a penny on the ground I picked it up kept sweeping until I noticed a dime by the door. This wasnt unusual since people drop change all the time. As I was picking it up though something caught my eye as it blew past the door I went outside looked right, nothing, looked left and there sat a fat wad of cash it was nearly $300 laying on the ground.

Yes I kept it.

No one ever stopped back by asking about it ether.

9.) From ozQuarteroy:

A friend of mine worked nights in a convenience store by herself and she told me about a time when a woman came in drenched in blood. When asked she said flatly, "don't worry, it's not my blood." She bought a pack of cigarettes and was on her merry way.

10.) From dxrey65:

I was a 7-11 night clerk for about 5 years when I was young. Nothing too outrageous happened. The big nightly event was the 2 AM rush, the cut-off for selling alcohol when I'd run a bar through the beer cooler doors. There was always a bunch of people coming in just before, and always a few coming in after that would beg and argue and I'd just have to say no.

One time around 3 AM an older drunk but well-dressed Mexican guy comes in, two really pretty girls with him, argues and pleads with me to sell him some beer for about 15 minutes. He was oddly pleasant, seemed like a guy no one said no to, but I said no. He went out with the girls then came back in alone. Looked at me and smiled, pulled a giant wad of bills from his pocket and peeled off a twenty, sat it on the counter, walked over to the cooler and pulled out a case of beer through the bars. Then as I'm telling him I can't sell that to him he reaches in his other pocket and pulls out a baggy of coke, wags it in the air in front of me significantly, sits that on the $20 bill and says "esta todo bien, mi amigo", with a wink, and walks out the door with the beer.

Another time around 3 AM again these two young girls came in and wandered the store for about a half hour, laughing their asses off at everything. Literally rolling on the floor laughing, reading the labels of the candy bars and stuff like that. I talked to them enough that they told me they'd eaten some mushrooms. Finally they picked out a couple of candy bars and a couple sodas. At the counter I rang them up and they realized they didn't have any money...which was hilariously funny and they were on the floor laughing again. I bagged their stuff and told them not to worry about it. Sweeping the lot after they left I could hear them still laughing down the street.

11.) From GarryBuseysPants:

I don’t work night shift exactly, but this will work. So, my store closes up at 10 pm. I come in one morning at around 4:45ish to find an old Native American man passed out in our kitchen. We have a rather large kitchen because we work next to an industrial area w lots of truck drivers/oil field workers who start their work day early, so we make lots of food for breakfast and lunch. So I call the police because what the hell am I supposed to do (There’s a very bad neighborhood behind the store that’s constantly hit for drug busts.. like hard shit.. plus we find bloody needles in the bathrooms all the time.) the police show up like 15 minutes later with some paramedics and the guy was just asleep lol. Apparently he came in around 9:30 pm the night before to use the bathroom and got locked in when the two night shift employees locked up. He didn’t have a phone and didn’t think to look for ours, so he got a six pack of beer out, ate some of our bread and went to sleep next to the grill 😂

12.) From ScotsmanPipes:

Oh shit I got a fun one! I used to work night shift at a gas station in Florida straight out of highschool. It was a great job. It was so slow that the other cashier and I would hangout out front and smoke cigs if we didn't have customers and sometimes a friend or two would drop by.

Well one night we were doing just that and we see a truck coming up the road being pushed by 4 guys and followed closely by a police car and another car. The truck is clearly out of gas, and having worked there for awhile this is more common than people think. We figure the police car is slowly riding behind them so that another car doesn't slam into them. This is a normal procedure for police in my city.

Well the exact moment the truck is pushed up to a pump a whole swarm of police cars fly into the only entrance of the gas station, completely blocking it off. All of the cops are now aiming their AR-15s and Glocks at the guys who pushed the truck yelling at them to get on the ground and not move. One of the guys started reaching in the truck and I thought he was about to get blown away. I should mention that the angle of attack put us in the line of fire.

After they arrest 2 of the guys (the other 2 were just good guys helping push the truck), we find out that they had robbed another gas station up the street. Apparently the truck's description didn't match but they got the license plate right and when the cop pulled behind the truck to make sure they didn't get hit, he ran the plates and called for backup.

They should have gotten gas AND the money imo.

I used to love that job.

13.) From alanzoheraldofaldo:

I got a few.

Once there was a guy that came in, probably around 18. He came up to the counter and asked if he could put on a uniform and take a selfie. At first I hesitated, but he mentioned that he made plans that he was now trying to fall back on. I decided why not.

Another time, a man went pump to pump to take all the pamphlet adds with cards attached to them. My co worker and I could never fathom why he would want or need all those.

The best one would be when a guy came in, at first with all his clothing on. He never said a word. But just gestured to where the bathrooms where, and left. He was fumbling over himself and appeared to be off some drug. The second time he came in he didn’t have a shirt on, he was missing his shoe and sock on one foot. And he was covered in mud and water. Again he gestured to the bathroom and it wasn’t until he started screaming inside the bathroom that I decided to go check on him. When I knocked on the door he answered as if it was his house, cracking the door. I asked if he was alright and if he wanted to wait in the lobby.(we shared the building with a Dunkin’ Donuts). Eventually we call the cops and they show up and take the guy away on a stretcher.

14.) From chevy1500:

Working security in a bad neighborhood . This guy walking minding his own business in a cowboy hat , cowboy shoes . And a thong carrying around a raccoon. It looked like he was feeding the raccoon something. I locked my doors asap.

15.) From rizzlycaviar:

when i was in high school i worked at a gas station and this one night i heard a loud crash and stuff started falling off the back wall. puzzled, i just sort of stared at the wall and then a guy, clearly intoxicated, walks in and says “ya sorry, i backed into your building but i’m not paying for any damages. so do you guys have zigzags?” and proceeded to short change me for a pack of them lmfao

16.) From hot_pocket_hero:

A few things. One is a man came in very drunk and told me that the key to happiness is cocaine, hookers, a new truck and a bottle he then tipped me 20 bucks. Another time I had like 20 police officers in my store at the same time for no reason.

17.) From ejsandstrom:

A drunk guy tried to fight me for stealing his job at the gas station. He started chasing me and fell down in the street. The “police” called and questioned me, and then the “police Sargent” blew her cover when she started yelling at me for beating up her son. He was in his mid 20’s 6’ 275. I was a short skinny 16yo.

18.) From __Sassafrass__:

I worked overnights at an isolated gas station the summer after I graduated high school, way back in the late 1980s. This gas station had hot pizza in a clear case, and this case opened from the back. You'd open the case, pull out a slice, put it on a plate and hand it to the customer. One day when I came in at 11 pm, there were 3 slices left in the case, which was 3 or 4 feet down the counter from the register. I had one piece for dinner, then went about working my shift, which consisted of standing at the register waiting for people to wander in.

It was a slow shift, I had only 4 or 5 customers in a couple of hours. Not a busy shift by any means, and most just wanted lottery tickets or to pay for gas or grab a pop. But by 1 am, there was no one in the store or at the pumps, so I got started neatening the store, always in eyesight of the front counter (the register, the lotto machine and the pizza case) and no one came in for the hour I was shlepping around trying to make it look like I was working. Figuring the pizza was pretty well dried out by then, I went to throw it out. Opened the case and there was just an empty tray. Somehow 2 slices of (probably 5 hours old pizza) disappeared. Now, the only way to get into the pizza case was to get behind the counter and to do that, you had to punch in a code and then the door would buzz really loud and unlock. In other words, you couldn't just reach around the counter and get to the pizza. I scratched my head, spent the rest of my shift nervously worrying that there was some rando pizza eating killer hiding in the store, and when a sheriff's deputy came in around 4 am, I asked him to check the building for any intruders. He didn't find anyone.

Before leaving at the end of my shift, I wrote a note to my boss detailing what happened, then went home. When I came in for my next shift, he was there waiting and told me he reviewed the video (there were cameras aimed at the front counter, door, and over the store) and played it back for me. It showed me ringing out a customer, then going and neatening up the shelves. Meanwhile, on the front counter camera, a couple of minutes after I left the counter area, the camera got shaky and then went to static for 30 seconds or so. When it came back on, the pizza was no longer in the case.

Never happened again while I worked there (which was for another 6 months or so) and we never did figure out what happened.

TL:DR Random pizza Ghost came into my gas station and stole 2 pieces of pizza


29 Memes To Help You Start Your Day Off With A Laugh.

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"Live life to the fullest no matter what."

-Victoria Arlen

Live your life to the absolute fullest by spending your time laughing at memes. This batch of comedy is guaranteed to make your morning at least 50% funnier.

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Comedian releases dance video every year to celebrate September 21.

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It's September 21. That's the date, but it's also an Internet holiday. You see, September 21 is the date referenced in Earth, Wind & Fire's song 'September.' It's an excellent year-round jam, but listening to it *on* the date itself makes for a special occasion.

Comedian Demi Adejuyigbe started a tradition in 2016 of releasing a dance video on September 21. Each year, the video has become more elaborate and surprising, as Demi finds new ways to let people know that it's the date name-checked in EWF's classic song. He first utilized a simple yet effective sight gag.

He built continually on this concept in future years, with each video more complex than the last.

He enlisted the help of the West Los Angeles Children's Choir in 2018.

This year he truly outdid himself. From the first reveal onwards, my jaw remained on the floor.

People were heartened to see the 'holiday' recognized in such hilarious fashion.

Adejuyigbe is perhaps best known as co-host of the Gilmore Guys podcast, which recapped every episode of 'Gilmore Girls' - and later, every episode of 'Bunheads' and 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' two shows that Amy Sherman-Palladino also created. He has written for shows like 'The Good Place' and 'The Late Late Show with James Corden.' His current podcast Punch Up The Jam invites guests to revise and (ideally) improve popular songs. Kudos, Demi, for making the Internet better every September 21!

The funniest times people used incorrect words that sounded like other words.

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A malapropism is the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one - and their potential for hilarity is endless. From Bone Apple Tea ('Bon Appetit') comes a collection of misused words that's guaranteed to make you giggle. I'm a tough nut to crack, but scrolling through these had me cackling so loudly I scared my cat (apologies to Marzipan). Enjoy!

1. 'Pic'

2. 'Male'

3. 'Beings'

4. 'Marijuana'

5. 'Prosecuted'

6. This one took me a second...

7. Classic.

8. 'Hypocrites'

9. 'Disgust'

10. 'Parmesan'

11. So delicious, you'll...

12. 'Insomnia'

13. I...

14. *sprints toward sign*

19 Naughty Memes You Don't Have To Feel Guilty For Laughing At

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"The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind."

-Jerry Hall

Anyone with a wicked sense of humor and a filthy mind will appreciate these slightly off-color memes. If you are easily offended, this is not the list for you.

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After a jeweler called her engagement rings 'pathetic', this woman responded.

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Money can't buy you happiness, or love. But it *can* buy you an expensive engagement ring if you want one. New Jerseyans Ariel Desiree McRae and her husband Quinn know that a $$$ ring isn't necessary for an engagement, or a happy life together - and they have the perfect story to prove it.

My husband doesn't have a lot, neither of us do. We scrape and scrape to pay bills and put food in our bellies, but...

Posted by Ariel Desiree McRae on Saturday, November 26, 2016

Ariel wrote on Facebook,

My husband doesn't have a lot, neither of us do. We scrape and scrape to pay bills and put food in our bellies, but after almost 2 years of dating we decided that we couldn't wait anymore, so we didn't.

Waiting to accumulate Big Ring Money before marriage is a great way to delay marriage for a long, long time. But that wasn't the plan for these two.

I wasn't even thinking about rings, I just wanted to marry my best friend, but he wouldn't have it. He scraped up just enough money to buy me two matching rings from Pandora. Sterling silver and CZ to be exact. That's what sits on my ring finger, and I am so in love with them.

CZ = cubic zirconia, by the way.

While we were purchasing my rings however, another lady that was working there came over to help the lady selling them to us. She said, "Y'all can you believe that some men get these as engagement rings? How pathetic." When she said that I watched my now husband's face fall. He already felt bad because he couldn't afford the pear-shaped set that so obviously had my heart and covered my Pinterest page. He already felt like a failure, asking me again and again "Are you sure you'll be happy with these? Are you sure this is okay?" He was so upset at the idea of not making
me happy enough and of me not wanting to marry him because my rings didn't cost enough money or weren't flashy enough.

Besides being rude, if you work retail of any kind...why would you *discourage* someone from purchasing inventory? Isn't the point to make sales? I don't get it.

Old Ariel would have ripped that woman a new one. Mature Ariel said, "It isn't the ring that matters, it is the love that goes into buying one that matters." We bought the rings and left.

Old Ariel sounds fun, though.

Y'all I would have gotten married to this man if it had been a 25¢ gum ball machine ring. When did our nation fall so far to think the only way a man can truly love a woman is if he buys her $3,000+ jewelry and makes a public decree of his affection with said flashy ring? Sure they are nice, sure the sentiment is wonderful and I'm not trying to cut down any of your experiences, but when did it
come to all that? Why do material possessions equate love??

A beautiful sentiment.

My husband was so afraid of me not wanting him because he couldn't afford a piece of jewelry. He was afraid that the love I have for him would pale because he couldn't afford the wedding set I wanted. The world has made it this way and it is so sad.

Being able to afford arbitrary material possessions isn't a requisite for manhood - or for being a loving, long-term partner.

But here I am though, Court-House married, $130 ring set, the love of my life by my side and happier than I could ever imagine.

Congratulations to Ariel and Quinn! She later updated the post with an explanation of how the couple met, prompted by popular demand.

Update: This post keeps growing much to my surprise, and I've been asked a thousand times how we met. So here is the short version! My husband and I met online at the age of 20, talked on the phone (and I mean actually talked not text) for 6+ hours a day for two days. He then drove an hour out of his way to take me on a date. I wore a tacky Christmas sweater (if you think I am lying, ask him) We ate wings, had a burping contest, and drove around listening to music and singing. I fell in love with him on the first date. If he had asked me to marry him the first time we met, I probably would have said yes. To be honest, we had wanted to elope three months into dating, but decided to take some extra time to get established beforehand. Ultimately we couldn't wait any longer.. so we eloped. I've never been this happy in my life and I couldn't imagine spending it with anyone else ever.

Can't you just *hear* the wedding bells? I wish this couple the best. They clearly have their priorities straight.

Bride-to-be claims friend stole her 'dream wedding dress' after seeing photos of it.

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One distraught bride posted to Reddit last week with a conundrum. She'd shown photos of her ideal wedding dress to a friend who was getting married a few months earlier than her. Said friend went out and scooped up the dress. If you're like me and drama is your Gatorade, keep reading. If not, redirect to Reader's Digest or something.

Title says it all. I have a good girlfriend who’s getting married a few months before me and we were talking about our weddings together and I showed her a picture of my dream wedding dress that I was going to buy. Low and behold, a couple weeks later she texts me a picture of her wearing the dress at a store, saying that she knows it’s my dream dress, but she loved it when she saw it and put it on and knew it was her dress.

So. Once this 'friend' saw photos of the dress, she obviously fell in love with it. She rushed to buy it and justified her actions after the fact. Brazen! But you know what they say: all's fair in love and wedding planning.

And she said she figured it’d be okay since I hadn’t even tried it on yet, but she KNEW I was planning on trying it on, KNEW it was my dream dress, and KNEW I was going to buy it. She’s now asking me to find a different dress so she can wear it. I don’t know what to do, I’m so upset. I know it seems petty and it’s just a dress but I feel like she really crossed a line and is being completely unfair. What should I do? I’ve tried on tons of dresses and none compare to the one I found online and wanted to buy. Should I get it anyway?

Besides relaying the situation, she asked, 'Should I get it anyway?' In my opinion, yes. To go ahead with her plans and wear the same dress is an absolute power move. Most Redditors agreed with me, but for different reasons - most of which have to do with self-love and pragmatism. Bo-ring.

Have you tried it on yet? You may not like it as much as you think. But if you do, buy it. She definitely can’t tell you not to wear it, that’s ridiculous.

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If it were me, I would still get the dress as it's a dress that is absolutely loved. Though your friend will wear the same dress, so what? Obviously you guys both have the same great taste and will each look spendid in it either way.

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Try it on, but also try on others.

If you are still in love with YOUR dress, and it truly is the one for you -- buy it!

Your friend did this to herself. Be nice about it, and just laugh it off, but don't give an inch if she whines about you getting the dress after she'd bought it. Joke and say, "Oh you're welcome! We both have great taste!"

Even 1 year from now -- no one will care or remember. Pick different hair, different colors, and don't worry about other people on your special day.

And 5 years from now, you'll be looking back on your own photos, not at hers!

-Amplitude

Get the dress. GET THE DRESS. Do not give up on your dream just because she decided to be an asshat. I get that there are other people out there that also probably bought this dress but this is someone that's supposed to be close to you so of course it hurts. She has a lot of nerve but please try it on anyway!

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Get the dress, but lose the friend.

-TinyCowParade

WWYD? Wear the same dress or a different one? Maintain a friendship with the dress-stealer or cut her loose? Sound off!

16 behind-the-scenes Instagrams from celebrities getting ready for the Emmys.

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The Emmys are television's (and Netflix's and Amazon's and Hulu's) biggest night! Through Instagram, celebrities generously gave us peeks at the process of going from beautiful to beautifuler for the purple carpet. Plus, just like us, they ride in cars, too! Here are the best behind-the-scenes snapshots.

1. My queen.

2. Rachel Brosnahan team ASSEMBLE.

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Squad O’ Glam

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3. You're a good man, Theon.

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Come onnn Emmmmmys

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4. Viola Davis with some words of encouragement.

5. A moving tribute to Ike Barinholtz from Ike Barinholtz.

6. Jameela Jamil keeps it real.

7. Billy Porter's hat did that!

8. Stay gold, Natasha Lyonne.

9. This is them.

10. Antoni looking like a ripe and firm avocado.

11. This is all Zendaya gave us.

12. Missandei got her head back.

13. Sophie Turner danced with The Devil Wears Prada.

14. James Van Der Beek has confidence.

15. Ken Jeong is your dad.

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16. Did you know that NECK MASKS were a thing?


The audience laughed at Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner at the Emmys.

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We interrupt your evening with an important news broadcast:

It sure sounds like the audience at the Emmy Awards laughed in Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner's faces, an opportunity the proletariat can only dream about.

Kim and Kendall were presenting the award for Best Reality Competition Program (Condragulations, RuPaul's Drag Race!) when they sang the praises of reality television.

"Our family knows firsthand how truly compelling television comes from real people, just being themselves," Kim said. There appeared to be some laughs from the audience, and who knows whether the laughter was directed at them or a silly clown bicycled up the aisle on comically small bike.

The sisters seemed uncomfortable, but maybe they're not used to being on camera?

A Forbes reporter on the inside said that he heard people laughing at them.

Here's the moment from the room where it happens. This is like the goddamn Zapruder film.

HAHAHA—and I cannot emphasize this enough—HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Bartender bleeds through uniform to prove that her job's dress code is unfair to women.

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What's it like being a woman? Sometimes you literally have to bleed (or cry) to get men to listen to you. A woman who goes by inconvenientsilence on Reddit recently shared her story about how when she was 19 she fought back against a sexist dress code in her workplace by letting herself bleed everywhere.

The woman was 19 at the time and working at a UK casino chain where the women had to work on the casino floor while the men remained behind the bar.

She says the women were "not allowed to stand still" so even on a quiet day, they were forced to walk in circles. It was "frustrating," but since "the pay was good," she and the other women complied. It helped that the uniforms they had to wear were "comfortable."

Okay I have worked in a lot of different industries but this happened while i worked in a casino chain in the UK. At 19, I was a bar tender and shifts would usually be 12 hours at a time. While I worked there the dress code was smart black (so smart trousers and black shirts) which men and woman had to wear because it was comfortable. To get more tips, even though I was classified at a bar tender, the company forced the women to work on the casino floor making us walk in circles around the gambling tables and made the men stay behind the bar. The woman were not allowed to stand still so even on a quiet day we still had to walk in circles, this was made easier with our uniforms being comfortable. Although it was frustrating to walk around for hours on end the pay was good so we complied.

But then the company held a meeting in which they decided to change the women's uniforms, demanding that they wear high heels and "tight grey dresses" that "you could barely move in." Remember, their job literally forced them to keep moving.

The woman and her female co-workers complained to management that the new dress code would leave them "in pain by the end of the night," but management told them to "suck it up." So the woman came up with a plan.

Then the company held a meeting and told us how they decided to change the uniforms. Unsurprisingly the guys uniforms didn’t change at all but the women were told to wear tight grey dresses you could barely move in and high heels by the next shift, it was clearly to look more appealing and get more tips. Of course my female coworkers and I were pissed off about this and told the managers that we will not only have restricted movement but will also be in pain by the end of the night if we have to walk around for hours in high heels on the hard floor. Management did not care and told us to suck it up. After this we all gathered in the changing rooms and talked about how there is no way we are wearing this new uniform and shouldn’t wear it in protest. That's when I had an idea. I suggested that my coworkers do what they have planned and I will wear the new uniform because we needed to prove our point. After a long discussion and hesitation they agreed and let me do it.

She showed up to work in her new uniform, which she said made it "difficult" to turn her body and "near impossible" to bend over. She also "struggled to breathe," and her feet were in pain from wearing heels on hard floors. Nevertheless, she persisted.

Even as her co-workers encouraged her to change from heels to flats, the woman "pushed on through the pain" until the end of her shift. It was all part of her plan.

The next shift I walked in the building in the new uniform, my god it was uncomfortable, the dress made it difficult to turn my body round and bending over was near impossible, it was so tight that when i did kneel down I was scared it would rip. Management were really happy to see that I complied even saying to my coworkers how they should learn from me. I had to keep it cool while they said that as I was already started to get sore from the heels. It was a busy night and I was running around like a headless chicken, the dress made it difficult to keep up the pace as I struggled to breathe properly (I think the dress was not designed for this kind of movement) and the pain from my shoes increased to the point that at times I had to attempt to crouch for a second in the back to give my feet a rest. My coworkers started begging me to stop and just get flat shoes on for my own sake but I declined stating how I needed to prove our point so I pushed on through the pain till the end of the shift.

At the end of her excruciating 12-hour shift, when management came over to "see how everyone was," the woman smiled and removed her shoes.

She says her managers faces went from "all smiles to shock" when they saw her standing before her with her feet covered with blood and blood running onto the floor from open wounds on her heels.

Management came in when we all finished to see how everyone was and asking me how I found the shift. I smiled and said it was great with one small problem. I removed my shoes for the first time in 12 hours and stood in front of my managers mildly shaking. Their faces went from all smiles to shock when they looked at my feet to see my blood running on the floor from the open wounds on my heels, the injuries covered the entirety of my heels with dried blood on the back of my shoes. They started telling me I should not have done that and should of worn flat shoes but I reminded them saying “but it’s part of the new dress code, I had to wear high heels like you told me". As the injuries were exposed I started to feel the pain intensify and had to hold back tears but my shaking got worse. They made me sit down and got the first aid kit for my feet as I started to unzip the back of my dress saying how hard it is to breathe.

She says after that, the women never had to wear high heels during their shifts again. And though they still had to wear dresses, they were "made looser."

The dresses were still compulsory but the dresses were made looser and we never had to wear high heels on shift again.

TLDR: Managers made female employees wear high heels and tight dresses on nonstop 12 hour floor service shift, we complained but managers ignored us, I wore the new uniform even through all the pain, shoes cause bad injuries and my blood ran on the floors, new dress code was modified.

Women shouldn't have to literally bleed onto the floor to prove that a dress code is restrictive, uncomfortable and painful. But her story is not uncommon. Every woman has had an experience where someone didn't believe she was in physical or emotional pain until they saw it with their own eyes.

She explains that she didn't take legal action against the company because she was 19 and "wasn't aware" she could do that. However, now she has gone back to school to study law "focusing on the employment and contract side of things."

Edit: I'm sorry it was a bit anticlimactic. Just for the people asking about lawsuits or if I took any action against them, unfortunately I did not. When I was 19, I wasn't aware I could do that or how I could do anything about it but this and other work related issues I had over the years actually encouraged me to go to university and study law focusing on the employment and contract side of things. I'm starting my first year in 2 weeks.

Hopefully now she'll be able to help other women avoid having to go through what she went through.

20 funny tweets from people who watched the 2019 Emmy Awards.

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September 22nd was the Emmy Awards! People who still own televisions watched television about television, and there surprisingly were some surprises. Fleabag and Phoebe Waller-Bridge triumphed over Veep and Mrs. Maisel, and Ozark is undeniably a thing now. Game of Thrones won its last Best Drama Series Emmy for its last season, and Gwenyth Paltrow did a walk that launched a thousand memes.

If you endured the hours-long telecast, these tweets summarizing the event on your reward.

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Michelle Williams receives cheers for using her Emmy speech to demand equal pay for women.

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Michelle Williams won the Emmy award for best actress in a limited series or movie for her role in "Fosse/Verdon," but she also won best Emmy's speech...

Many people were moved by Michelle's call to action for equal pay in entertainment and beyond, particularly for women of color. Williams made headlines in 2017 when it was revealed she was paid $1,000 for re-shoots that she did for "All the Money in The World" while her co-star, Mark Wahlberg, was paid $1.5 million. This is such an indefensible difference in pay that it seems like a joke. At that point, they might as well make the minimum wage for men 15 dollars per hour and pay women in "valuable experience."

Celebrities often use their award speeches to voice their opinion on a problem within Hollywood or politics, and while they sometimes are told to stay in their lane, anyone who has a platform has a responsibility. While Michelle is a wealthy Hollywood actress, there are plenty of women out there who aren't famous, who aren't making the same as their male counterparts and that needs to change.

Of course, the touching moment at the end where she gives a shout out to her daughter is the cherry on top of a perfect speech.

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Great job, Michelle!

People are responding to the Felicity Huffman prison joke from last night's Emmys.

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The former Desperate Housewives star and convicted criminal Felicity Huffman was not among the celebrities honored and awarded at Sunday night's Emmys.

However, despite not being at the ceremony, she did receivea special mention from host Thomas Lennon in the form of overt shade.

Perhaps the shadiest part of Lennon's shout-out was the fact that he didn't even need to use Huffman's name, this was a subtweet on live television.

"The producers have asked me to give a special shout-out to any of our previous lead actress winners who are watching tonight from prison. Hopefully those two weeks are going to fly right by. Keep your chin up!"

People on Twitter were quick to notice the shout-out and connect it to Huffman, since there isn't currently a long list of actresses with 14 day jail sentences who previously won Emmys.

Technically, there is a good chance Huffman was watching the awards show from home, since she isn't set to report for her sentencing until October 25th.

Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in jail after she admitted to paying $15,000 to boost her daughter's SAT score. She'll also be required to pay a $30,000 fine and do community service, hopefully the service includes tutoring her own children so she doesn't have to scam the system next time.

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